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Refashioning Futures : Criticism after Postcoloniality / David Scott.
Author
Scott, David
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Format
Book
Language
English
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Core Textbook
Published/Created
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1999]
©1999
Description
1 online resource (248 p.)
Availability
Available Online
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Developing countries
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Historiography
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Culture
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Study and teaching
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Political science
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Series
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Summary note
How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at "deconstructing" Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point, but that changing realities in these countries require a new approach. In Refashioning Futures, he proposes a strategic practice of criticism that brings the political more clearly into view in areas of the world where the very coherence of a secular-modern project can no longer be taken for granted. Through a series of linked essays on culture and politics in his native Jamaica and in Sri Lanka, the site of his long scholarly involvement, Scott examines the ways in which modernity inserted itself into and altered the lives of the colonized. The institutional procedures encoded in these modern postcolonial states and their legal systems come under scrutiny, as do our contemporary languages of the political. Scott demonstrates that modern concepts of political representation, community, rights, justice, obligation, and the common good do not apply universally and require reconsideration. His ultimate goal is to describe the modern colonial past in a way that enables us to appreciate more deeply the contours of our historical present and that enlarges the possibility of reshaping it.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
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English
Contents
Front matter
Contents
Introduction. Criticism after Postcoloniality
PART ONE: RATIONALITIES
PART TWO: HISTORIES
PART THREE: FUTURES
Coda: After Bandung: From the Politics of Colonial Representation to a Theory of Postcolonial Politi
Acknowledgments
Index
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ISBN
1-282-75371-1
9786612753718
1-4008-2306-4
OCLC
705527072
979754537
984687742
Doi
10.1515/9781400823062
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