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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400823062
035 _a(DE-B1597)446157
035 _a(OCoLC)979754537
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050 4 _aD883.S36 1999
072 7 _aSOC002000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aScott, David
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRefashioning Futures :
_bCriticism after Postcoloniality /
_cDavid Scott.
250 _aCore Textbook
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[1999]
264 4 _c©1999
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aPrinceton Studies in Culture/Power/History
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction. Criticism after Postcoloniality --
_tPART ONE: RATIONALITIES --
_tPART TWO: HISTORIES --
_tPART THREE: FUTURES --
_tCoda: After Bandung: From the Politics of Colonial Representation to a Theory of Postcolonial Politi --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHow can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at "deconstructing" Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point, but that changing realities in these countries require a new approach. In Refashioning Futures, he proposes a strategic practice of criticism that brings the political more clearly into view in areas of the world where the very coherence of a secular-modern project can no longer be taken for granted. Through a series of linked essays on culture and politics in his native Jamaica and in Sri Lanka, the site of his long scholarly involvement, Scott examines the ways in which modernity inserted itself into and altered the lives of the colonized. The institutional procedures encoded in these modern postcolonial states and their legal systems come under scrutiny, as do our contemporary languages of the political. Scott demonstrates that modern concepts of political representation, community, rights, justice, obligation, and the common good do not apply universally and require reconsideration. His ultimate goal is to describe the modern colonial past in a way that enables us to appreciate more deeply the contours of our historical present and that enlarges the possibility of reshaping it.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aCulture
_xStudy and teaching.
650 0 _aPolitical science.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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