Scott Refashioning Futures

Criticism after Postcoloniality
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2306-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

David Scott is a Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He has held appointments at Bates College, the University of Chicago, and the University of the West Indies, Mona. He is the author of Formations of Ritual and is the editor of the journal Small Axe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Criticism after Postcoloniality 3

Pt. 1 Rationalities 21

Ch. 1 Colonial Governmentality 23

Ch. 2 Religion in Colonial Civil Society 53

Ch. 3 The Government of Freedom 70

Pt. 2 Histories 91

Ch. 4 Dehistoricizing History 93

Ch. 5 "An Obscure Miracle of Connection" 106

Pt. 3 Futures 129

Ch. 6 The Aftermaths of Sovereignty 131

Ch. 7 Community, Number and the Ethos of Democracy 158

Ch. 8 Fanonian Futures? 190

Coda: After Bandung: From the Politics of Colonial Representation to a Theory of Postcolonial Politics 221

Acknowledgements 225

Index 227

Über Autor(innen)

David Scott is a Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He has held appointments at Bates College, the University of Chicago, and the University of the West Indies, Mona. He is the author of Formations of Ritual and is the editor of the journal Small Axe.