Beschreibung:
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.
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.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 How the Grinch Hijacked Radicalism: Thoughts on Postrevolutionary Histories
Chapter 3 Revolution in History and Memory: The Politics of Cultural Revolution in Historical Perspective
Chapter 4 Is There History after Eurocentrism? Globalism, Postcolonialism, and the Disavowal of History
Chapter 5 Theory, History, Culture: Cultural Identity and the Politics in the Twentieth Century China
Chapter 6 Reading Ashis Nandy: The Return of the Past, or Modernity with a Vengeance?
Chapter 7 Formations of Globality and Radical Politics
Chapter 8 Bringing History Back In: Of Diasporas, Hybridities, Place and Histories
Chapter 9 The Past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism
Chapter 10 Places and Transcommunality: A Comment on John Brown Child's Idea of the Transcommunal