2015
DOI: 10.24201/es.2015v33n0.10
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Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital

Abstract: estudios sociológicos XXXiii: 98, 2015 Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital, Londres y Nueva York, Verso, 2013, 320 pp.sanjay seth* Contrario a lo que se podría suponer a juzgar por su título, el libro de Vivek Chibber no se ocupa de la teoría poscolonial sino de los Estudios Subalternos (es). Me refiero a una serie de volúmenes publicados entre 1982 y 2008 que se proponían en lo esencial repensar la historia de la India. Para ser aún más preciso: el libro de Chibber está dedicado a… Show more

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“…Chatterjee has adopted the separation between state and civil society as an important defining feature of capitalist politics, both in his discussions of passive revolution and in his later work (Chatterjee 1997(Chatterjee , 2004. Chibber (2013) has noted a similar conflation of liberal democracy = modernity = capitalism in the work of Guha, another major theoretician of subaltern studies. Chibber notes that this conflation occurs through the assertion that capitalism's drive for universality includes the instantiation of the "bourgeois public" sphere, a sphere that was limited in India, due to the failure of the Indian bourgeoisie to end landlordism in the countryside.…”
Section: State Civil and Political Society In Chatterjee's Workmentioning
confidence: 92%
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“…Chatterjee has adopted the separation between state and civil society as an important defining feature of capitalist politics, both in his discussions of passive revolution and in his later work (Chatterjee 1997(Chatterjee , 2004. Chibber (2013) has noted a similar conflation of liberal democracy = modernity = capitalism in the work of Guha, another major theoretician of subaltern studies. Chibber notes that this conflation occurs through the assertion that capitalism's drive for universality includes the instantiation of the "bourgeois public" sphere, a sphere that was limited in India, due to the failure of the Indian bourgeoisie to end landlordism in the countryside.…”
Section: State Civil and Political Society In Chatterjee's Workmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…A number of critics have taken Chatterjee to task for assuming that the community consciousness of the rural peasantry has been posited prior to an analysis of the social relations in rural life that would generate a sense of community identity (Chibber 2013;Alam 1983;Nilson 2012). Solidarity becomes an a priori of peasant consciousness and agency.…”
Section: State Civil and Political Society In Chatterjee's Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…facing challenges to 'modernize' from more 'advanced' states (Goldfrank 1975(Goldfrank , 1979Skocpol 1979). As noted in the previous section, the drive to carry out 'modernizing missions' can foster unstable amalgams of 'modern' and 'archaic' (Trotksy 1997;Chibber 2013). Pertinent examples include Mexico, Turkey, Russia, Iran, and contemporary Egypt.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…And this dynamic was not specific to Russia alone; rather, it was replicated by many of Russia's contemporaries, including Bismarckian Prussia and Meiji Japan, as well as in many subsequent 'modernizing missions' around the world (Chibber 2013). …”
Section: An Intersocietal Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Anthropology and History were, it seems, the next in line to "catch up" with the fashionable poststructuralist currents in literary and cultural studies. We will not rehearse here the various accounts already provided by a host of critics of the poststructuralist turn within the Gramscian historiographical project of Subaltern Studies (see Sarkar 1994, Lal 2001, Kaiwar 2014, Chibber 2013. 5 But the skirmishes between postcolonial theory and Marxism are now staged across a wider range of disciplines.…”
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confidence: 99%