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, Jose Rabasa, Maria Josefina
Saldana-Portillo, Jaqueline Urla
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