The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

  • الكاتب: Lowe, Lisa; Lloyd, David; Fish, Stanley; Jameson, Fredric
  • الناشر: Duke University Press
  • مسلسل: Post-Contemporary Interventions
  • ISBN: 9780822320333
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822382317
  • مكان النشر:  Durham , United States
  • رقمي: 1997
  • شهر: نوفمبر
  • صفحات: 604
  • DDC: 330.12/2
  • اللغة: الإنجليزية
Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices—including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labor organizing, and various cultural movements—challenge contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of production.
Reworking Marxist critique, these essays on Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe advance a new understanding of "cultural politics" within the context of transnational neocolonial capitalism. This perspective contributes to an overall critique of traditional approaches to modernity, development, and linear liberal narratives of culture, history, and democratic institutions. It also frames a set of alternative social practices that allows for connections to be made between feminist politics among immigrant women in Britain, women of color in the United States, and Muslim women in Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, and Canada; the work of subaltern studies in India, the Philippines, and Mexico; and antiracist social movements in North and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. These connections displace modes of opposition traditionally defined in relation to the modern state and enable a rethinking of political practice in the era of global capitalism.

Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Nandi Bhatia, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Chungmoo Choi, Clara Connolly, Angela Davis, Arturo Escobar, Grant Farred, Homa Hoodfar, Reynaldo C. Ileto, George Lipsitz, David Lloyd, Lisa Lowe, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Aihwa Ong, Pragna Patel, José Rabasa, Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Jaqueline Urla


  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY
    • The Time of History and the Times of Gods
    • The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity
    • Outlines of a Nonlinear Emplotment of Philippine History
    • Developmentalism’s Irresistible Seduction–Rural Subjectivity under Sandinista Agricultural Policy
    • Nationalisms against the State
  • II. ALTERNATIVES
    • Cultural Politics and Biological Diversity: State, Capital, and Social Movements in the Pacific Coast of Colombia
    • First Stop, Port-au-Prince: Mapping Postcolonial Africa through Toussaint L’Ouverture and His Black Jacobins
    • The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women
    • Outlaw Language: Creating Alternative Public Spheres in Basque Free Radio
  • III. “UNLIKELY COALITIONS”
    • Interview with Lisa Lowe Angela Davis: Reflections on Race, Class, and Gender in the USA
    • “Frantic to Join … the Japanese Army”: The Asia Pacific War in the Lives of African American Soldiers and Civilians
    • Work, Immigration, Gender: New Subjects of Cultural Politics
    • Women Who Walk on Water: Working across “Race” in Women Against Fundamentalism
  • IV. WORLD CULTURE AND PRACTICE
    • Of Zapatismo: Reflections on the Folkloric and the Impossible in a Subaltern Insurrection
    • Staging Resistance: The Indian People’s Theatre Association
    • The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea
    • In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics and the Diasporic Dilemma
    • Woman at the Close of the Maoist Era in the Polemics of Li Xiaojiang and Her Associates
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Contributors

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