A Theory of Justice
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Abolitionism
After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre
Anti-imperialism
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Buddhism
Cambridge University Press
Capitalism
Capitalism and Slavery
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Colonialism
Communitarianism
Consociationalism
Criticism
Decolonising the Mind
Decolonization
Deconstruction
Disenchantment
Edward Said
Emancipation
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Ethnic studies
Eurocentrism
Externality
Form of life (philosophy)
Frantz Fanon
Fredric Jameson
Good and evil
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Historical revisionism (negationism)
Historicism
Historiography
Ideology
Imperialism
Institution
Insurgency
Islamic fundamentalism
Kobena Mercer
Liberalism
Marxism
Michel Foucault
Modernity
Moral economy
Neocolonialism
Neoliberalism
Orientalism
Orlando Patterson
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Political correctness
Political philosophy
Politics
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Public sphere
Racism
Radical democracy
Radicalism (historical)
Rationality
Reactionary
Recuperation (politics)
Rights of Man
Romanticism
Secularization
Self-determination
Slavery
Sovereignty
Sri Lanka
Subaltern (postcolonialism)
Talal Asad
The Wretched of the Earth
Third World
Utilitarianism
Product details
- ISBN 9780691004860
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How 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.
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.
