Globalization and its postcolonial (dis)contents
Reading Dalit writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7860269 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Revathi Krishnaswamy |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-82 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449850500062972 |
| OpenAlex | W1590520889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
Whether globalization is a very new phenomenon or a very old one, what is decidedly new about current globalization theory is its postcolonial content: the vocabulary of deterritorialization, difference, and hybridity, the emphasis on the cultural, the use of certain postcolonial cultural products as evidence and exemplars of globalization. This postcolonial content is often strategically marshaled to represent globalization as a deeply disruptive yet ultimately empowering force that unleashes subaltern resistance and enables the production of alternative modernities. This paper proposes to interrogate this metropolitan postcolonial discourse on globalization against a Dalit discourse emerging in the context of caste politics in India. My discussion draws attention to certain critical disjunctures between the two discourses, focusing especially on modernity and mobility. The Dalit relationship to modernity illustrates how contested the category is within those very spaces celebrated in postcolonial theory as locations of alternative modernities. And Dalit literature exposes the limits of postcolonial mobility and hybridity by revealing the tenacious persistence, even exacerbation, of binary forms of identity under conditions of uneven globalization. Emerging at the unstable intersection of the local, the national, and the transnational, Dalit discourse thus enacts a contestatory affirmation that is expressed not in terms of desertion and evasion through mobility but in terms of a grim determination to take responsibility for the given through dwelling
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Cultural globalization · Globalization · Hybridity · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |