The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

by Lowe, Lisa; Lloyd, David

• ISBN13: 9780822320333
• ISBN10: 0822320339
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays inThe Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capitaldemonstrate 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, Joseacute; Rabasa, Maria Josefina Saldantilde;a-Portillo, Jaqueline Urla

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Lisa Lowe
David Lloyd
Introduction	1	(32)
1. CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY	33	(166)
Dipesh Chakrabarty
The Time of History and the Times of Gods	35	(26)
Aihwa Ong
The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity	61	(37)
Reynaldo C. Ileto
Outlines of a Nonlinear Emplotment of Philippine History	98	(34)
Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo
Developmentalism's Irresistible Seduction -- Rural Subjectivity under Sandinista Agricultural Policy	132	(41)
David Lloyd
Nationalisms against the State	173	(26)
II. ALTERNATIVES	199	(102)
Arturo Escobar
Cultural Politics and Biological Diversity: State, Capital, and Social Movements in the Pacific Coast of Colombia	201	(26)
Grant Farred
First Stop, Port-au-Prince: Mapping Postcolonial Africa through Toussaint L'Ouverture and His Black Jacobins	227	(21)
Homa Hoodfar
The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women	248	(32)
Jacqueline Urla
Outlaw Language: Creating Alternative Public Spheres in Basque Free Radio	280	(21)
III. "UNLIKELY COALITIONS"	301	(96)
Interview with Lisa Lowe
Angela Davis: Reflections on Race, Class, and Gender in the USA	303	(21)
George Lipsitz
"Frantic to Join...the Japanese Army": The Asia Pacific War in the Lives of African American Soldiers and Civilians	324	(30)
Lisa Lowe
Work, Immigration, Gender: New Subjects of Cultural Politics	354	(21)
Clara Connolly
Pragna Patel
Women Who Walk on Water: Working across "Race" in Women Against Fundamentalism	375	(22)
IV. WORLD CULTURE AND PRACTICE	397	(148)
Jose Rabasa
Of Zapatismo: Reflections on the Folkloric and the Impossible in a Subaltern Insurrection	399	(33)
Nandi Bhatia
Staging Resistance: The Indian People's Theatre Association	432	(29)
Chungmoo Choi
The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea	461	(24)
Martin F. Manalansan IV
In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics and the Diasporic Dilemma	485	(21)
Tani E. Barlow
Woman at the Close of the Maoist Era in the Polemics of Li Xiaojiang and Her Associates	506	(39)
Works Cited	545	(36)
Index	581	(10)
Contributors	591