03727nam 2200673 a 450 991080732580332120200520144314.01-282-75371-197866127537181-4008-2306-410.1515/9781400823062(CKB)1000000000006714(EBL)617310(OCoLC)705527072(SSID)ssj0000234472(PQKBManifestationID)11924718(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234472(PQKBWorkID)10241288(PQKB)10721384(DE-B1597)446157(OCoLC)979754537(OCoLC)984687742(DE-B1597)9781400823062(MiAaPQ)EBC617310(EXLCZ)99100000000000671419981016d1999 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrRefashioning futures criticism after postcoloniality /David ScottCore TextbookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19991 online resource (248 p.)Princeton studies in culture/power/historyPrinceton paperbacksDescription based upon print version of record.1-4008-0721-2 0-691-00486-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction. Criticism after Postcoloniality --PART ONE: RATIONALITIES --PART TWO: HISTORIES --PART THREE: FUTURES --Coda: After Bandung: From the Politics of Colonial Representation to a Theory of Postcolonial Politi --Acknowledgments --IndexHow 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.Princeton studies in culture/power/history.Princeton paperbacks.CultureStudy and teachingPolitical scienceDeveloping countriesHistoriographyCultureStudy and teaching.Political science.907/.2Scott David1958-1712821MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807325803321Refashioning futures4187244UNINA