1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462439003321

Autore

Jabri Vivienne <1958-, >

Titolo

The postcolonial subject : claiming politics, governing others in late modernity / / Vivienne Jabri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-60683-6

9786613919281

1-136-28150-9

0-203-11225-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Interventions

Disciplina

325/.32

Soggetti

International relations

Postcolonialism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the past in the present; 1 Tracing the postcolonial subject; An epistemological quest for the postcolonial subject; On temporal trajectories; The spatial and the postcolonial; 2 Policing access to the modern: power, fear, resistance; Narratives of resistance; Culture and the politics of control; Counter-insurgency: violence, fear, anxiety; 3 Resistance as the claim to politics; Claiming the right to politics; Locating the subject of politics; Fanon's negativity; Claiming the international

Tracing the postcolonial subject into late modernity4 Reclaiming the international: resistance in cosmopolitan space; Declaring independence, claiming the right to (international) politics; Political community and the postcolonial state; The postcolonial state, resistance, and the international; 5 Governing others: war and operations of power in late modernity; When power is rendered cosmopolitan; Liberal cosmopolitanism and the government of populations; Violence and the government of populations; 6 Creative politics and postcolonial agency; The question of postcolonial agency



The late modern postcolonialClaiming the political in late modernity: the Arab Spring; A cosmopolitanism of politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book places the lens on postcolonial agency and resistance in a social and geopolitical context that has witnessed great transformations in international politics. What does postcolonial politics mean in a late modern context of interventions that seek to govern postcolonial populations? Drawing on historic and contemporary articulations of agency and resistance and highlighting voices from the postcolonial world, the book explores the transition from colonial modernity to the late modern postcolonial era. It shows that at each moment wherein the claim to politics is made, the p

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965134703321

Titolo

Beyond subsistence : plains archaeology and the postprocessual critique / / edited by Philip Duke and Michael C. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8173-8364-6

0-585-16398-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DukeP. G

WilsonMichael <1948->

Disciplina

978.200497

978/.00497

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Great Plains - Social conditions

Indians of North America - Great Plains - Antiquities

Social archaeology - Great Plains - Philosophy

Environmental archaeology - Great Plains - Philosophy

Great Plains Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Postprocessualism and Plains Archaeology; Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives; 1.



Processual and Postprocessual Archaeology: A Brief Critical Review; 2. We Do Not Need Your Past! Politics, Indian Time, and Plains Archaeology; 3. Beyond Hearth and Home on the Range: Feminist Approaches to Plains Archaeology; 4. Taxonomic Determinism in Evolutionary Theory: Another Model of Multilinear Cultural Evolution with an Example from the Plains; 5. Predictive Modeling and Cultural Resource Management: An Alternative View from the Plains Periphery

Part II: Building Alternative Archaeologies6. Social and Political Causes for the Emergence of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern North America; 7. Great Plains Mound Building: A Postprocessual View; 8. Sing Away the Buffalo: Faction and Fission on the Northern Plains; 9. The Household as a Portable Mnemonic Landscape: Archaeological Implications for Plains Stone Circle Sites; 10. Medicine Wheels on the Northern Plains: Contexts, Codes, and Symbols; 11. Projectile Points as Cultural Symbols: Ethnography and Archaeology; Part III: Commentary; 12. Paradigm in the Rough

13. Fighting Back on the PlainsReferences; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a series of essays, written by Plains scholars of diverse research interests and backgrounds, that apply postprocessual approaches to the solution of current problems in Plains archaeology.  Postprocessual archaeology is seen as a potential vehicle for integrating culture-historical, processual, and postmodernist approaches to solve specific archaeological problems. The contributors address specific interpretive problems in all the major regions of the North American Plains, investigate different Plains societies (including hunter-gatherers and farmers and t