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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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Sun, wind, and the rebirth of extractive economies: renewable energy investment and metanarratives of crisis in Greece
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