LEADER 03727nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910807325803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-75371-1 010 $a9786612753718 010 $a1-4008-2306-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823062 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006714 035 $a(EBL)617310 035 $a(OCoLC)705527072 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000234472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924718 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241288 035 $a(PQKB)10721384 035 $a(DE-B1597)446157 035 $a(OCoLC)979754537 035 $a(OCoLC)984687742 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617310 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006714 100 $a19981016d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRefashioning futures $ecriticism after postcoloniality /$fDavid Scott 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history 225 1 $aPrinceton paperbacks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4008-0721-2 311 $a0-691-00486-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$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 330 $aHow can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at "deconstructing" Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point, but that changing realities in these countries require a new approach. In Refashioning Futures, he proposes a strategic practice of criticism that brings the political more clearly into view in areas of the world where the very coherence of a secular-modern project can no longer be taken for granted. Through a series of linked essays on culture and politics in his native Jamaica and in Sri Lanka, the site of his long scholarly involvement, Scott examines the ways in which modernity inserted itself into and altered the lives of the colonized. The institutional procedures encoded in these modern postcolonial states and their legal systems come under scrutiny, as do our contemporary languages of the political. Scott demonstrates that modern concepts of political representation, community, rights, justice, obligation, and the common good do not apply universally and require reconsideration. His ultimate goal is to describe the modern colonial past in a way that enables us to appreciate more deeply the contours of our historical present and that enlarges the possibility of reshaping it. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history. 410 0$aPrinceton paperbacks. 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aPolitical science 607 $aDeveloping countries$xHistoriography 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aPolitical science. 676 $a907/.2 700 $aScott$b David$f1958-$01712821 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807325803321 996 $aRefashioning futures$94187244 997 $aUNINA