The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Paperback, New)

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

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Post-Contemporary Interventions
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	November 1997
Editors:	Lisa Lowe • David Lloyd
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	608
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-2046-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-8223-2046-0
Barcode:	9780822320463

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