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Theory from the South - Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (Hardcover)
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Theory from the South - Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (Hardcover)
Series: The Radical Imagination
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The Global South has become shorthand for the world of
non-European, postcolonial peoples. Synonymous with uncertain
development, unorthodox economies, failed states, and nations
fraught with corruption, poverty, incivility, and strife, it is
that half of the world about which the Global North spins theories.
Rarely the Global South is seen as a source of theory and
explanation for world historical events. Yet, as many nation-states
of the Northern Hemisphere experience increasing fiscal meltdown,
state privatization, corruption, ethnic conflict, and other crises,
it seems as though they are evolving southward, so to speak, in
both positive and problematic ways. Is this so? How? In what
measure? Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff take on these
questions, reversing the usual order of things. Drawing on their
long experience of living in Africa and teaching in Europe and the
U.S., they address a range of familiar themes democracy, law,
national borders, labor and capital, religion and the occult,
liberalism and multiculturalism with the imagination and agile
prose for which they are well known. They ask how we might
understand these things anew with theory developed in the South.
Their ethnographic eye stresses the salience of the local without
losing sight of the large-scale processes in everyday lives that
are everywhere enmeshed. This view from the South renders key
problems of our time at once strange and familiar, giving an ironic
twist to the evolutionary pathways long assumed by social
scientists."
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