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Arif Dirlik is professor of history at University of Oregon.This is a feisty and extremely intelligent book. It is urgent reading for anyone committed to understanding and improving the world.
- Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center, Yale University,
A critical analysis of postmodernist and postcolonial thought and theories of globalization. Dirlik makes a powerful argument against both older social-science functionalism and current culturalism and stresses to what extent Eurocentrism is not just a discourse but is embedded in structures of economic, political, and social power. Without capitalism, Eurocentrism would have been just another ethnocentrism. Dirlik’s essays constitute an important corrective to aspects of recent postmodernist and postcolonialist literature.
- Georg Iggers, SUNY, Buffalo,
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 How the Grinch Hijacked Radicalism: Thoughts on Postrevolutionary Histories
Chapter 3 Revolution in History and Memory: The Politics of Cultural Revolution in Historical Perspective
Chapter 4 Is There History after Eurocentrism? Globalism, Postcolonialism, and the Disavowal of History
Chapter 5 Theory, History, Culture: Cultural Identity and the Politics in the Twentieth Century China
Chapter 6 Reading Ashis Nandy: The Return of the Past, or Modernity with a Vengeance?
Chapter 7 Formations of Globality and Radical Politics
Chapter 8 Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridities, Place and Histories
Chapter 9 The Past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism
Chapter 10 Places and Transcommunality: A Comment on John Brown Child's Idea of the Transcommunal