Abstract
The lively discussion that generated the project of "Subaltern Studies" in India (see, eg., Sarkar 1998, Sinha 2009) makes it clear that rich theoretical and policy alternatives have emerged in the last 20 years for the interpretation and understanding of the postcolonial situation and the problems of subaltern politics as presented on the subcontinent. This project raises once more the question of power relations on which the global circulation of knowledge relies and in which the theoretical canon is produced, when applied to an area of research in which the critical and radical claims of postcolonial studies serve as a key point of reference. From the beginning this geopolitics of knowledge production has been postcolonial in that the centre of criticism, as Robert Young writes, "wanted to alter the prevailing forms in which the relationships between people from the Western and non‐Western world are thought" (Young 2003 p. 2). Instead of being "a scientific theory" that covers the post‐colonial, for Young, postcolonialism is an interplay of perspectives that run against each other, sometimes in contradictory ways (ibid. p. 6).
Translated title of the contribution | Struggles for justice at the borders : the search for a new political subject in the global age |
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Original language | German |
Title of host publication | Jenseits des Eurozentrismus: Postkoloniale Perspektiven in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften=Beyond Eurocentrism: Postcolonial Perspectives in Historical |
Editors | Sebastian Conrad, Shalini Randeria, Regina Römild |
Place of Publication | Germany |
Publisher | Campus Verlag |
Pages | 379-401 |
Number of pages | 23 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783593395173 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |