Postcolonialism Meets Economics

by S CHARUSHEELA;

• ISBN13: 9780415287258
• ISBN10: 0415287251
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In the last half century, economics has take over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that. The wide array of contributions to this book draw on the rapidly growing body of postcolonial studies to critique both orthodox and heterodox economics. This book addresses a large gap in postcolonial studies, which lacks the type of sophisticated analysis of economic questions that it displays in its analysis of culture. The intellectual and disciplinary terrain covered within this book spans economics, history, anthropology, philosophy, literary theory, political science and women's studies. With contributions from such leading scholars as Robert Dimand, R. Radhakrishnan and Anne Mayhew, this impressive new book brings two massive subjects together for the first time. Students andresearchers involved with economics and postcolonial studies as well as being of interest across the social science spectrum.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	x
Preface and acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: economics and postcolonial thought	1	(18)
EIMAN O. ZEIN-ELABDIN AND S. CHARUSHEELA
PART I The space of postcoloniality	19	(52)
1 Articulating the postcolonial (with economics in mind)	21	(19)
EIMAN O. ZEIN-ELABDIN
2 Postcolonial thought, postmodernism, and economics: questions of ontology and ethics	40	(19)
S. CHARUSHEELA
Comments
On the possibility of a postcolonial economic analysis: a comment on Zein-Elabdin and Charusheela	59	(6)
ANNE MAYHEW
Disciplining postcolonialism and postcolonizing the disciplines	65	(8)
EMMANUEL CHUKWUDI EZE
PART II Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity	71	(72)
3 Classical political economy and orientalism: Nassau senior's eastern tours	73	(18)
ROBERT W. DIMAND
4 Trading bodies, trade in bodies: the 1878 Paris World Exhibition as economic discourse	91	(22)
ULLA GRAPARD
5 Economics and the postcolonial other	113	(17)
ANTONIO CALLARI
Comments
Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity	130	(6)
JOHN B. DAMS
Political economy and postcolonial modernities	136	(9)
MICHAEL J. EHAPIRO
PART III Economics as a contemporary hegemonic discourse	143	(70)
6 The hungry ghost: IMF policy, global capitalist transformation, and laboring bodies in southeast Asia	145	(20)
JOSEPH MEDLEY AND LORRAYNE CARROLL
7 Orientalism and economic methods: (re)reading feminist economic discussions of Islam	165	(18)
JENNIFER C. OLMETED
8 Writing economic theory another way	183	(18)
NITAEHA KALIL
Comments
Creating spaces: a comment on contemporary discourses in economics	201	(6)
DRUCILLA K. BARKER
Ethicizing economics, or for that matter, any discourse	207	(8)
R. RADHAKRISHNAN
PART IV Toward a non-modernist economic analysis	213	(68)
9 Hybrid thinking: bringing postcolonial theory to colonial Latin American economic history	215	(20)
KAREN B. GRAUBART
10 Hegemony, ambivalence, and class subjectivity: southern planters in sharecropping relations in the post-bellum United states	235	(18)
EERAP A.KAYATEKIN
11 Contested states, transnational subjects: toward a Post Keynesianism without modernity	253	(18)
COLIN DANBY
Comments
Econometrics and postcolonial theory: a comment on the fluidity of race	271	(4)
CECILIA A. CONRAD
Hybridity, hegemony, and heterodoxy: a new world	275	(6)
STEPHEN GUDEMAN
Index	281