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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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Card Carrying Christians: Credit, Debt, and Believing in Emerging Colombia
TL;DR: For Fernanda and for Gloria, all of these practices of consumption were revelatory of God's abundant love for them, from the basic level of survival to the brazen level of a down payment on a house as discussed by the authors.
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Learning from the South: common challenges and solutions for small‐scale farming
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the transferability of solutions between locations, elucidating the conditions that support and hinder such transfers, and evaluate the potential for a workshop approach to act as a learning space, in which the sharing of experiences can foster learning for participants and lead to new, creative ways of thinking about the process-based challenges faced by small-scale farmers.
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What has anthropology learned from the anthropology of colonialism
TL;DR: The emergence of the anthropology of colonialism in the 1990s has stimulated and enhanced critical reflection on the cultural and historical embedding of the discipline of anthropology, offering what is in effect a historiography of anthropologists' present How has this historical consciousness changed the contours of anthropology? Has it allowed anthropologists to critically distance their discipline from its intimate involvement with the world of modernity, development and the welfare state, as it first emerged under colonial rule? Have anthropologists learned that, instead of targeting and thus essentialising otherness, we should now study the processes by
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A iminente revolução na teoria social
TL;DR: A divisao social do trabalho sempre teve uma dimensao geopolitica as discussed by the authors, e a coleta de dados, o processamento teorico desses dados and a disseminacao e aplicacao dos resultados.
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Coalitions of the Willing and International Law: The Interplay between Formality and Informality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a dynamic game that consists of transformative orchestration strategies and quasi-formalization processes, where coalitions of the willing turn into durable efforts, while international organizations perform as "platforms" within broader regime complexes.