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The Postcolonial Aura

Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism

By: Arif Dirlik

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The Postcolonial Aura

Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism

By: Arif Dirlik

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Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

By: Arif Dirlik,Alexander Woodside,Roxann Prazniak

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Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

By: Arif Dirlik,Alexander Woodside,Roxann Prazniak

This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic of China which have had a major impact on contemporary transformations globally. Case studies from South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America in turn place these transformations in a comparative global perspective. The contributors include distinguished scholars from the UN, PRC, India, Zimbabwe, and Latin America who are also active in policy issues.

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The Postcolonial Aura

Third World Criticism In The Age Of Global Capitalism

By: Arif Dirlik

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The Postcolonial Aura

Third World Criticism In The Age Of Global Capitalism

By: Arif Dirlik

The essays in this volume range from questions of cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. Although the new era of global capitalism calls for the remapping of global relations, such remapping must be informed both by a grasp of contemporary structures of economic, political, and cultural power and by memories of earlier radical visions of society. Without these two conditions, Arif Dirlik argues, the current preoccupation with Eurocentrism, ethnic diversity, and multiculturalism distract from issues of power that dominate global relations and that find expression in murderous ethnic conflicts. Dirlik offers multi-historicalism, which presupposes a historically grounded conception of cultural difference, seeks in different histories alternative visions of human society, and stresses divergent historical trajectories against a future colonized presently by an ideology of capital. Arguing that the operations of capital have brought the question of the local to the fore, he points to indigenism as a source of paradigms of social relations, and relationships to nature, to challenge the voracious developmentalism that undermines local welfare globally.

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0429975589

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Culture & History of Postrevolutionary China

The Perspective of Global Modernity

By: Arif Dirlik

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Culture & History of Postrevolutionary China

The Perspective of Global Modernity

By: Arif Dirlik

The essays in this volume grew from a series of talks delivered in late 2010 as the Liang Qichao Memorial Lectures at the Academy of National Learning (Guoxue yuan) of Tsinghua University, Beijing. Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figured prominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the socalled "reform and opening" (gaige kaifang) in the late 1970s, these essays range widely in subject matter, from Marxist historiography to sociology and anthropology in China to guoxue/national studies. Together they are conceived as different windows into a basic problem: the deployment of culture and history in postrevolutionary Chinese thought. Dirlik touches on a number of themes, including the repudiation of the revolutionary past after 1978, which has led to a rise of cultural nationalism. He further places these developments within a global context, ultimately making a case methodologically for "worlding' China: bringing China into the world, and the world into China.

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9629964740

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Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society

By: Arif Dirlik,Alexander Woodside,Roxann Prazniak

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By: Arif Dirlik,Alexander Woodside,Roxann Prazniak

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Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution

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Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution

By: Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the socialist movement in China. Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasizes the anarchist contribution to revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice. The changing circumstances of the Chinese revolution provide the immediate context, but throughout his writing the author views Chinese anarchism in relation to anarchism worldwide.

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Univ of California Press

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0520913736

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Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

By: Roxann Prazniak,Arif Dirlik

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Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

By: Roxann Prazniak,Arif Dirlik

This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, the contributors reach for a vision of social development that supports sustainable, humane cultures. Bringing together the local and the global, this work provides the first sustained linkage of ethnic groups in diaspora to macrocosmic processes of world capital that inevitably reach down to mediate even the most local experiences. The essays, ranging in their discussion of place from Los Angeles and New York to New Zealand and Indonesia, offer both reasoned argument and authoritiative information on how local experience interacts with larger processes of global capital and the diasporic phenomenon. The book will be an invaluable resource and launching point for scholars and students in ethnic and identity studies and will interest all readers exploring the production of place and identification.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Revolution and History

Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937

By: Arif Dirlik

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Revolution and History

Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937

By: Arif Dirlik

A fascinating contribution to Marxist historiography and to the history of Marxist historiography. Dirlik's story of the reemergence of the modes of production debate in the early years of the Chinese revolution has much to tell us about that debate itself, and not least about its intimate relationship to political practice and revolutionary strategy."—Fredric Jameson, Duke University

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Indonesian Islamic Fiction in the 21st Century: Representations of the Other in the Works of Forum Lingkar Pena

By: Muh Arif Rokhman

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Indonesian Islamic Fiction in the 21st Century: Representations of the Other in the Works of Forum Lingkar Pena

By: Muh Arif Rokhman

THIS BOOK examines a selection of fictional works by writers belonging to the Indonesian association of writers, Forum Lingkar Pena (Pen Circle Forum; hereafter referred to as FLP). Figures from 2010 suggest that this organisation had around 5,000 members across 93 Indonesian branches and ten overseas branches. Writers recruited and trained by FLP have produced approximately nine hundred published works. Their works are often categorised as Islamic or religious literature (sastra religi). This label-ling of FLP’s literary output as Islamic literature has arisen principally be-cause of the publicly expressed aims and beliefs of key FLP figures which include such notions as sastra dakwah (literature for religious propaga-tion). In order to contextualise the emergence of FLP in the final years of the twentieth century and to locate this organisation within wider Indo-nesian literary developments, it is necessary to take account of cultural debates that came to the fore with the profound social and political changes which accompanied the end of the New Order regime in 1998.

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UAD PRESS

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Global Modernity

Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism

By: Arif Dirlik

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Global Modernity

Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism

By: Arif Dirlik

A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition." William D. Coleman, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University "An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University In his provocative new book Arif Dirlik argues that the present represents not the beginning of globalization, but its end. We are instead in a new era in the unfolding of capitalism -- "global modernity". The fall of communism in the 1980s generated culturally informed counter-claims to modernity. Globalization has fragmented our understanding of what is "modern". Dirlik's "global modernity" is a concept that enables us to distinguish the present from its Eurocentric past, while recognizing the crucial importance of that past in shaping the present.

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Global Modernity

Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism

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Global Modernity

Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism

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Postmodernity's Histories

The Past as Legacy and Project

By: Arif Dirlik

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Postmodernity's Histories

The Past as Legacy and Project

By: Arif Dirlik

Challenges to the conventional study of history have been raised by the recent paradigm of globalization and by new intellectual transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. In this book the noted historian Arif Dirlik argues for a new approach to the practice of historical research. Moving beyond mere critique, he synthesizes traditional historical methods with new approaches that emphasize historical memory, indigenous writing, place based history, and the dual processes of integration and fragmentation in a globalized world.

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Marxism in the Chinese Revolution

By: Arif Dirlik

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Marxism in the Chinese Revolution

By: Arif Dirlik

Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations of revolutionaries who found the hope of social, political, and cultural liberation in Communist alternatives to capitalism and the intellectual inspiration to realize their hopes in Marxist theory. The book's historical approach to Marxist theory emphasizes its global relevance while avoiding dogmatic and Eurocentric limitations. These incisive essays range from the origins of socialism in the early twentieth century, through the victory of the Communists in mid-century, to the virtual abandonment by century's end of any pretense to a socialist revolutionary project by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. All that remains of the revolution in historical hindsight are memories of its failures and misdeeds, but Dirlik retains a critical perspective not just toward the past but also toward the ideological hegemonies of the present. Taken together, his writings reaffirm the centrality of the revolution to modern Chinese history. They also illuminate the fundamental importance of Marxism to grasping the flaws of capitalist modernity, despite the fact that in the end the socialist response was unable to transcend the social and ideological horizons of capitalism.

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0742530698

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Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution

By: Arif Dirlik

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Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution

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Univ of California Press

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What Is in a Rim?

Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea

By: Arif Dirlik

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What Is in a Rim?

Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea

By: Arif Dirlik

This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including the human costs and consequences_that underlie the much-celebrated economic boom. In evaluating the idea of 'Asia Pacific,' the book shifts our focus from abstract relationships between capital and commodities to the human interactions that have played a formative part in the region's constitution. The contributors agree that it is these interactions that constitute the region, rather than the physical boundaries of the Pacific. This revised and updated edition brings in additional essays focusing on conceptualizations of the Pacific, considers more fully interactions among countries, and strongly emphasizes peoples within the Pacific, who are routinely ignored in most discussions of the 'Rim.

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Revolution and History

Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937

By: Arif Dirlik

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Revolution and History

Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937

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What Is In A Rim?

Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

By: Arif Dirlik

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What Is In A Rim?

Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

By: Arif Dirlik

In this volume, scholars question the current euphoria over the rapid growth of the Pacific rim - as an economic region and as a political ideal. They suggest that much of the discourse on the region is highly ideological, focusing on its potential for capitalist development while ignoring the limitations of such development, its human costs and consequences. This critique of the idea of a Pacific rim also seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the region in terms of human interactions.

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1000009858

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Marxism and the Chinese Experience

Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism

By: Arif Dirlik,Maurice Meisner

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Marxism and the Chinese Experience

Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism

By: Arif Dirlik,Maurice Meisner

These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism. The themes have been selected for conceptual coherence within a socialist problematic of social change. Representing anthropology, art history, economics, history, literature and politics, various inquiries point in a twofold direction - the meaning of socialism for China and the meaning of Chinese Socialism for socialism as a global phenomenon - "meaning" not in some abstract sense but rather as it is constituted in the process of political ideological activity, which articulates and defines social relationships within China as well as China's relationship to the world.

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Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

By: Roxann Prazniak,Arif Dirlik

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Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

By: Roxann Prazniak,Arif Dirlik

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China and New Left Visions

Political and Cultural Interventions

By: Jie Lu,Ban Wang

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China and New Left Visions

Political and Cultural Interventions

By: Jie Lu,Ban Wang

Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left critics launched a critique in hopes of seeking an alternative to global capitalism. This volume takes a comprehensive look at China’s New Left in intellectual, cultural, and literary manifestations. The writers place the New Left within a global anti-hegemonic movement and the legacy of the Cold War. They discover grassroots literature that portrays the plight and resilience of the downtrodden and disadvantaged. With historical visions the writers also shed light on the present by drawing on the socialist past.

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Lexington Books

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0739165186

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Dialogues on Cultural Studies

Interviews with Contemporary Critics

By: Arif Dirlik

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Dialogues on Cultural Studies

Interviews with Contemporary Critics

By: Arif Dirlik

A remarkable collection of interviews and dialogues that discuss culture, ideology, history, Marxism, modernity, post-modernity, post-colonialism, globalization, and the role of the university and the intellectual in today's society

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University of Calgary Press

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1552380742

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