A Matter of Principle - Political Economy and the Making of Postcolonial Modernity in India: A Foucauldian Approach

In 'On Governmentality', Michel Foucault linked the emergence of the science of political economy to a new kind of power unique to the modern order. Departing from this observation, but integrating the wider imperial context of this historical shift by examining developments in the British Empire, the first part of this study analyses how the science of political economy was linked to the emergence of new identities, social practices as well as forms of political intervention and resistance in not only metropolises and colonies, but also the wider context of the Pax Britannica. The second part of the study analyses how these global entanglements shaped the conditions which made the emergence of anti- and postcolonial counter discourses and practices in India possible. By tracing how Indian imaginings of postcolonial modernity and concomitant practices of resistance emerged from engagements with globally circulating discourses on political economy, it shows the mutual entanglement between Western modernity and its postcolonial alternatives.

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• Autori: Katja Rieck
• Editore: Nomos
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.07.2020
• EAN: 9783848762927
• ISBN: 978-3-8487-6292-7
• Pagine: 486
• Dimensioni: 161 mm x 228 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 705 g
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia contemporanea (dal 1945 al 1989); Philosophie, Postkolonialismus, Deutschland, Indien, Imperialismus, Widerstand, Moderne, Geschichte Deutschlands, Themen der Philosophie, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Foucault, Capitalism, Social Movements, Politische Ökonomie, NG-Rabatt, Resistance, British Empire, Nationalism, India, Identity Politics, Modernity, Governmentality, Colonialism, Postcolonial Studies, liberalism, Political Economy, Institutional Economics, Westliche Philosophie: nach 1800, ca. 1945 bis ca. 1990 (die Zeit des Kalten Krieges), imperialism, Post-Development, South Asia, Multiple Modernities, Hindutva, Western modernity, Revivalism, Pax Britannica, political intervention, Knowledge/Power, Economic Heterodoxy, Invention of Tradition, historical shift