Writing Back: A review of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe4
The title of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s latest book suggests an attempt to “other” Europe by testing the ability of certain European social and political categories, such as rights, citizenship, fraternity, civil society, politics and nationalism, to conceptualize non-Western political modernities (20)....
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2001-01-01
|
| Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7497 |
| _version_ | 1811312882519900160 |
|---|---|
| author | Heather Snell |
| author_facet | Heather Snell |
| author_sort | Heather Snell |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The title of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s latest book suggests an attempt to “other” Europe by testing the ability of certain
European social and political categories, such as rights, citizenship, fraternity, civil society, politics and nationalism, to
conceptualize non-Western political modernities (20). The project is animportant one for postcolonial theory,
since it demonstrates that Enlightenment universals paradoxically serve to achieve the displacement of imperial structures. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-13T10:44:24Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-3218691dc5334d12bdaf53c76f736068 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 0101-4846 2175-8026 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-13T10:44:24Z |
| publishDate | 2001-01-01 |
| publisher | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Ilha do Desterro |
| spelling | doaj.art-3218691dc5334d12bdaf53c76f7360682022-12-22T02:49:49ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262001-01-0104014314510.5007/2175-8026.2001n40p1436465Writing Back: A review of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe4Heather SnellThe title of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s latest book suggests an attempt to “other” Europe by testing the ability of certain European social and political categories, such as rights, citizenship, fraternity, civil society, politics and nationalism, to conceptualize non-Western political modernities (20). The project is animportant one for postcolonial theory, since it demonstrates that Enlightenment universals paradoxically serve to achieve the displacement of imperial structures.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7497English LanguageEnglish |
| spellingShingle | Heather Snell Writing Back: A review of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe4 Ilha do Desterro English Language English |
| title | Writing Back: A review of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe4 |
| title_full | Writing Back: A review of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe4 |
| title_fullStr | Writing Back: A review of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe4 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Writing Back: A review of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe4 |
| title_short | Writing Back: A review of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe4 |
| title_sort | writing back a review of dipesh chakrabarty s provincializing europe4 |
| topic | English Language English |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7497 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT heathersnell writingbackareviewofdipeshchakrabartysprovincializingeurope4 |