Karl Marx and the postcolonial age. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ranabir Samaddar.
• Authors: Samāddāra, Raṇabīra
• Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Postcolonial Condition as a Strategic Concept for Critiquing This World; 1 The Book Plan; 2 A Return to Politics; 3 A Return to Political Economy; 4 Postcolonial Time; 5 The Postcolonial Condition as a Strategic Concept; Chapter 2: The Postcolonial Predicament; 1 Production of Knowledge, Decline of Theory and the Postcolonial World; 2 Translation, Equivalence, and the Making of the Postcolonial World; 3 The Subject of the Postcolonial Predicament: The Migrant; 4 The Subject of the Postcolonial Predicament: Labour. 5 Dialectical Understanding of the Postcolonial PredicamentChapter 3: Postcolonial Dynamics of Accumulation; 1 The "Ground Outside": Boundaries of Accumulation; 2 Some Reflections on the Organic Composition of Postcolonial Capital and Labour; 3 Accumulation as Transition; 4 Accumulation and the Reordering of Space; 5 War, Accumulation and the Postcolonial Critique; Chapter 4: Living Labour I: Reproduction of Life and Labour; 1 Living Labour and the Labour of Living; 2 The Resilient Life of Postcolonial Labour; 3 Labour's Spectral Presence in the Market. Chapter 5: Living Labour II: Logistics, Migration, and Labour1 Migration and Changing Forms of Labour; 2 The History of Nation and the History of Migrant Labour; 3 Infrastructure, Supply Chains, and Logistical Nightmares; 4 The New Territoriality of Capital: Data Centres in the Postcolonial World; Chapter 6: Theories of Postcolonial Economy; 1 The Fetish of Difference; 2 Fetish of the Informal; 3 A Question of Method; Chapter 7: The Problematic of Dual Power; 1 The Topography of Dual Power; 2 Lenin and Mao on Dual Power; 3 Autonomy of Workers' Struggles and the Issue of Dual Power. 4 New Questions around Dual PowerChapter 8: The Problematic of People; 1 How To Study People and Classes in the History of Struggles and Revolutions; 2 Citizens, People and the Political Moment; 3 The Multitude; 4 Populism; Chapter 9: The Fragmented Subject and a Theory of Leadership; 1 Subject as a Product of Idealist Theorisation; 2 If Not the Philosophical Subject, Then What?; 3 Subject and Leadership; 4 The Emergence of the Postcolonial Political Subject; 5 Collective Subject and Leadership; Chapter 10: Rebuilding the Theory of Crisis as a Postcolonial Task. 1 The Working Class Perspective on Crisis2 Lenin, Crisis, and the Postcolonial Condition; 3 The Crisis of the Postcolonial Condition; 4 The Historical Immanence of Crisis; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 335.4; 320; Political science; Communism; Postcolonialism; Political economy; Philosophy; Political science -- Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism; Communism; Postcolonialism; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Philosophy -- Political; History of Western philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Political Science -- Economic Conditions; Political economy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319632872; 3319632876
• Related ISBNs: 9783319632865; 3319632868
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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