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The Postcolonial Contemporary
Contributors come from a number of disciplines: literature, anthropology, geography, sociology, and history.The introduction is itself a major intervention in postcolonial theory, written by two leading younger scholars-one of whose work was recently discussed on the Editorial Page of theNew York Times.Works to reformulate postcolonial theory and praxis out of an engagement with a contemporary politics different in contour from those in which postcolonialism was born.
This volume invokes the \"postcolonial contemporary\" in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to thinkwithpostcolonial theory about political contemporaneity.
Many of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial theory were developed during the 1970s and 1990s, during what we may now recognize as the twilight of the postwar period. If forms of capitalist imperialism are entering into new configurations of neoliberal privatization, wars-without-end, xenophobic nationalism and unsustainable extraction, what aspects of postcolonial inquiry must be reworked or revised in order to grasp our political present?
In twelve essays that draw from a number of disciplines-history, anthropology, literature, geography, indigenous studies- and regional locations (the Black Atlantic, South Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Argentina)The Postcolonial Contemporaryseeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that have often characterized the field, such as universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; and politics vs. culture. These essays signal an attempt to reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments and do so under four inter-related analytics: Postcolonial Temporality; Deprovincializing the Global South; Beyond Marxism versus Postcolonial Studies; and Postcolonial Spatiality and New Political Imaginaries.
A brilliant and thorough introduction lays the groundwork for the volume, offering both a genealogy of the Postcolonial problematic and a sharp set of outlines for where we go from here.
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Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience
The implementation of neo-liberal policies in Latin America has led to countervailing transformations in democratic citizenship and to the rise of populist leaderships, while the crisis of representation has been accompanied by new forms of participation, generating profound transformations. The authors analyze these recent trends.
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Ordinary Ethics and the Emergence of Plebeian Democracy across the Global South
This study of La Salada, renamed by Cuartel’s residents as the “poor people’s shopping mall,” was founded in the early 1990s, at the height of neoliberalism, by several dozen undocumented Bolivian immigrants and Argentine street hawkers in Cuartel, a pauperized, stigmatized, and disenfranchised district near the city of Buenos Aires. By the early 2000s, La Salada occupied a central place in public life in Cuartel and beyond and was described by the European Union as “emblematic of counterfeit markets” and among the 10 worst of its kind. In studying this market and the network of satellite “Saladitas” that have proliferated in hundreds of neighborhoods across the country, my aim is to analyze the way the “structural poor” and the recently impoverished middle class—in the course of practicing noninstitutional politics, socioeconomic informality, and a-legality—transformed themselves into plebeian citizens. These practices have contributed to the emergence of a new form of life: plebeian democracy. In order to make sense of it, I have highlighted the ordinary ethics that accompanied these practices. In dialogue with James Holston’s study of “insurgent citizenship,” my study of plebeian citizenship provides an alternative account of the development of democratic life across the global south.
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Ordinary Ethics and the Emergence of Plebeian Democracy across the Global South
This study of La Salada, renamed by Cuartel’s residents as the “poor people’s shopping mall,” was founded in the early 1990s, at the height of neoliberalism, by several dozen undocumented Bolivian immigrants and Argentine street hawkers in Cuartel, a pauperized, stigmatized, and disenfranchised district near the city of Buenos Aires. By the early 2000s, La Salada occupied a central place in public life in Cuartel and beyond and was described by the European Union as “emblematic of counterfeit markets” and among the 10 worst of its kind. In studying this market and the network of satellite “Saladitas” that have proliferated in hundreds of neighborhoods across the country, my aim is to analyze the way the “structural poor” and the recently impoverished middle class—in the course of practicing noninstitutional politics, socioeconomic informality, and a-legality—transformed themselves into plebeian citizens. These practices have contributed to the emergence of a new form of life: plebeian democracy. In order to make sense of it, I have highlighted the ordinary ethics that accompanied these practices. In dialogue with James Holston’s study of “insurgent citizenship,” my study of plebeian citizenship provides an alternative account of the development of democratic life across the global south.
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Communitarian Cosmopolitanism
When I asked Ricardo why he and some of his co-workers at Ghelco, a food processing plant with fifty or so workers, had decided in early May 2002 in the midst of Argentina’s worst socio-economic debacle, to ‘recuperate’ their factory after the owner had filed for bankruptcy and terminated them, he responded:
if we had not done so, we would have been unemployed, and at our age [late 40s to late 50s] it would have been impossible to find another job [. . .] Anyone who is jobless is treated like garbage; look at the Piqueteros [. . .] Restarting
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The Trouble with Democracy
By placing political condition of our time in its long-term historical context, this book radically reconsiders key issues of political thought and gives you a comparative exploration of the current experiences of democracy in several world-regions.
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Buenos Aires’s La Salada Market and Plebeian Citizenship
La Salada, renamed the “poor people’s shopping mall” by many of the residents of Cuartel IX (270,000), is a socially stigmatized, economically pauperized, and politically disenfranchised peri-urban district located twenty kilo meters from the city of Buenos Aires. It is among the first and largest in Argentina to experience the full force of marketization. Founded in the early 1990s by several dozen undocumented Bolivian immigrants and Argentine street hawkers, by the first de cade of the twenty-first century La Salada occupied a central place in Cuartel and beyond. The European Union described it as “emblematic of counterfeit markets” and ranked
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