Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
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...…of much postcolonial theory has been to disrupt the Western telos of modernity, to trouble the histories it presumes, to ‘provincialize Europe’ (Chakrabarty 2000), to ‘renarrate’ empire (Makdisi 1992)—all the better, Homi Bhabha (1994a, 6) insists, to move the project of theory-making to an…...
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...…decades of postcolonial critique, the modernist social sciences—not excluding those of more radical bent—tend still to ‘bypass . . . the third world’, its narratives of modernity and the work of its ‘local’ intellectuals, in writing the planetary history of the present (Chakrabarty 2000, 7)....
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...For Dipesh Chakrabarty ( 2000 , 89), European historicism allows only one trajectory to non-Western societies if they are to be recognized as part of the grand human story: they must undergo a visible metamorphosis—fast or slow, effective or otherwise—to Western capitalist modernity....
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...For Dipesh Chakrabarty (2000, 89), European historicism allows only one trajectory to non-Western societies if they are to be recognized as part of the grand human story: they must undergo a visible metamorphosis—fast or slow, effective or otherwise—to Western capitalist modernity....
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