Postcolonialism and Modernity
A Critical Realist Critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8097847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nissim Mannathukkaren (0000-0002-4957-3673, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 299-327 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Critical Realism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7430 • E-ISSN: 1572-5138 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jcr.v9i3.299 |
| OpenAlex | W1598349597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper focuses on postcolonial theory's engagement with modernity. It argues that postcolonialism's problematization of modernity is significant and has to be contended with seriously. In seeking to question the predatory universalism of western modernity, postcolonial theory aspires to open up paths for different modernities that have the promise of emancipation and liberation for all cultures and societies. But the crux of this paper is that this promise is hardly fulfilled. Using critical realism, it interrogates postcolonialism's understanding of modernity. It demonstrates that, with regard to various aspects such as the material dimension, structural conditions, binaries and dualisms, relativism, fallibilism, temporality and structure/agency, postcolonialism's formulations are incomplete and inadequate. Ultimately, from a critical realist perspective, the non-fulfilment of postcolonialism's initial promise has serious consequences for the subjects of the ‘Third World’ that the theory claims to represent
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Critical theory · Emancipation · Epistemology · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Problematization · Relativism · Sociology · Universalism · Critical Realism in Sociology · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
Militants and Citizens
Neoliberalism on Trial
Introduction
Philosophy and the Human Sciences
Globalization and Culture
Dialectic
In Defence of Objectivity
The Nation and Its Fragments
Realism and Social Science
The Possibility of Naturalism
Philosophy of Social Science. The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Reading cricket fiction in the times of hindu nationalism and farmer suicides
Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History
In Defense of the Fragment
Beyond the Nation? Or within
The politics of literary postcoloniality
Redistribution and recognition
Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |