Overview

This volume offers an unusual, interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars working on the major regions of the global South. The authors probe important episodes of resistance in the colony and postcolony for the light they shed on the vexed notion of counterhegemony, enriching our notion of resistance and pointing to new directions for research.

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Author:   J. Chalcraft ,  Y. Noorani
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780230019188

ISBN 10:   0230019188
Pages:   289
Publication Date:   28 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; J.Chalcraft & Y.Noorani PART I: THE STATE AND POLITICS: NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION Hegemony, Counterhegemony and the Mexican Revolution; A.Knight The Fetishism of Identity: Empire, Nation, and the Politics of Subjectivity in Algeria; J.McDougall PART II: INTELLECTUAL FORMATIONS: AUTHORITY AND OPPOSITION Redefining Resistance: Counterhegemony, the Repressive Hypothesis and the Case of Arabic Modernism; Y.Noorani Hegemony and Liberation: Mao Zedong and Zou Taofen in Early Twentieth-Century China; R.Mitter The Road through Africa: Imperial Nationalism and Diasporic Racial Consciousness in Postslavery Barbados; M.Newton PART III: COUNTERCULTURE: NORMATIVE TENSION AND AMBIGUITY Reading, Hegemony and Counterhegemony in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic; B.C. Fortna Celebratory Ramadan and Hyperpiety in a Mexican Standoff: Counterhegemony in the Crossfire; W.Armbrust PART IV: POPULAR STRUGGLE: MANOEUVRE AND CONTESTATION Counterhegemonic Effects: Weighing, Measuring, Petitions, and Bureaucracy in Nineteenth Century Egypt; J.Chalcraft Hegemony from Below: Print Workers, the State, and the Communist Party in Peru, 1920-1940; P.Drinot The Politics of Institutional Subversion: Organized Labour and Resistance in Zambia; A.LeBas How do Activists Act? Conceiving Counterhegemony in Durban; S.Chari

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JOHN CHALCRAFT is Lecturer in Imperialism at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. Previous posts include a Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a lectureship at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories (2004). YASEEN NOORANI is Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, USA. Previous posts include a visiting professorship at the University of Michigan and a lectureship at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of the article 'Heteroto

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