The Wretched of the Earth

The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history.

Europe and the People without History

Doing philosophy means reasoning about questions that are of basic importance to the human experience—questions like, What is a good life? What is reality? How are knowledge and understanding possible? What should we believe? What norms should govern our societies, our relationships, and our activities? Philosophers critically analyze ideas and practices that often are assumed without reflection. Wesleyan’s philosophy faculty draws on multiple traditions of inquiry, offering a wide variety of perspectives and methods for addressing these questions.

What is philosophy

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

Selection d'extraits des Cahiers de Prison d'Antonio Gramsci, theoricien italien de la pensee marxiste, mort en prison en 1937 et qui proposa une reflexion sur l'education dans les regimes totalitaires, et plus generalement sur les systemes des gouvernements modernes, ou la priorite donnee a l'organisation economique et a l'efficacite de la production industrielle etouffe les valeurs humaines et historiques.

狱中札记 = The prison notebooks

This essay outlines intermedia theory’s contribution to the emerging multiple colonialisms framework and argues that a socio-ecological reproduction feminist approach to the multiple colonialisms p...

Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms: passive revolution, fascism redux and utopian praxes

Canadian cultural studies : a reader

After months of hyperbolic media controversy in Quebec regarding the accommodation of religious and cultural minorities (which came to be known as the Reasonable Accommodation Debate) and incidence...

Herouxville's Afghanistan, or, Accumulated Violence.

La connaissance produite au moyen de L'ethnographie est longtemps entree dans la culture populaire, et la propagation de stereotypes et d'informations a propos de differences culturelles est un trait caracteristique de notre epoque. Jusqua present, L'integration de L'ethno-graphie dans les circuits de L'information de la culture postmoderne a peu retenu L'attention de la critique. Comment la recherche ethno-graphique sur la mondialisation peut-elle s'opposer a une reduction formelle des idees dans le monde de L'information ? Cet article repense la pratique de la theoricienne litteraire Gayatri Spivak selon laquelle la «deconstruction subalterniste« est une strategie critique d'apprehension de L'ethnographie. Cette deconstruction ouvre la porte a une politique materialiste de la forme en assistant a la fiction implicite dans la metaphore du texte social.



Knowledge produced through ethnography has long flowed into popular culture, and the circulation of stereotypes and information about cultural differences is a characteristic feature of our time. Yet the integration of ethnography into the circuits of information of postmodern culture has received little critical attention. How can ethnographic research on globalization resist the formal reduction of ideas into information? This essay reworks literary theorist Gayatri Spivak's practice of subalternist deconstruction as a critical strategy of reading ethnography. Subalternist deconstruction enables a materialist politics of form by attending to the fiction implicit in the metaphor of the social text.

Native Informant as Impossible Perspective: Information, Subalternist Deconstruction and Ethnographies of Globalization*

This chapter examines the (re-)production of subaltern or “inthgenous knowledge” through video-based Media of a group of Dalit women farmers from Andhra Pradesh, Intha, who belong to a metha cooperative they have named the Community Metha Trust (CMT). The women of the CMT are a vital and active body in the network of Sangham (agricultural cooperatives) to which they belong, and their metha is politically engaged: Agricultural, environmental issues, particularly pertaining to biothversity, seed sovereignty, and gender issues, like subaltern women’s empowerment and thgnity, are constant themes of their work. They have made point-of-view documentaries, grassroots investigative journalism, promotional videos showcasing development projects, as well as participatory research videos in collaboration with the Deccan Development Society (DDS). Drawing on all these genres but going beyond them are a group of videos, which are crucial to their collective political project of managing their cooperatives and producing, reclaiming, and conserving subaltern “inthgenous knowledge.” My focus in this chapter will be on this particular aspect of their metha practice. The women of the Sangham seek to achieve autonomy over food production, access to seeds and other natural resources, markets and, through all of these, autonomy in their livelihoods and for their community’s future. Their endeavors to create an autonomous mode of knowledge production, as we shall see, is crucial to these struggles and the CMT’s quest for autonomous metha, as we shall also see, is crucial to all their struggles for autonomy.

Sourayan Mookerjea

Papers

Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms: passive revolution, fascism redux and utopian praxes

Canadian cultural studies : a reader

Herouxville's Afghanistan, or, Accumulated Violence.

Native Informant as Impossible Perspective: Information, Subalternist Deconstruction and Ethnographies of Globalization*

Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women’s Utopian Knowledge Production