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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
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In this article, the idea of provincializing Europe and the Narration of Modernity is discussed, with a focus on postcoloniality and the artifice of history, and the two histories of capital and domestic cruelty.Abstract:
Acknowlegments ix Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe 3 Part One: Historicism and the Narration of Modernity Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 27 Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital 47 Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History 72 Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts 97 Part Two: Histories of Belonging Chapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject 117 Chapter 6. Nation and Imagination 149 Chapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality 180 Chapter 8. Family, Fraternity, and Salaried labor 214 Epilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism 237 Notes 257 Index 299read more
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Failure via Schumpeter: Market Globality, Empire, and the End(s) of Capitalism
TL;DR: The contemporary language of business innovation embraces failure and claims an origin in the thought of Joseph Schumpeter, which contemplated the end(s) of the failure, completion, limits, and fulfillment of capitalism.
Limits of Conversion: Islamic Dawa, Domestic Work and Migrant South Asian Women in Kuwait
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A Political Analysis of the Formal Comparative Method: Historicizing the Globalization and Development Debate
TL;DR: The authors argue that a critical re-evaluation of the formal comparative method is necessary not only to rectify a methodological problem, but also to expose the politics of methodological choices in the comparative method.
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Competing Technologies, National(ist) Narratives, and Universal Claims: Toward a Global History of Space Exploration
TL;DR: In the fifty years since the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957, more than 6,000 functioning satellites have been launched into Earth orbit and beyond, some to the farthest reaches of our solar system as mentioned in this paper.