Theory from the South : or, how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa

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Theory from the South : or, how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa

Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff

Paradigm Publishers, c2012 [i.e. c2011]

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-249) and index

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Description

As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory from the South provides new insights into key problems of our time.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Theory from the South
  • Chapter 2 On Personhood
  • Chapter 3 Liberalism, Policulturalism, and ID-ology
  • Chapter 4 Nations With/Out Borders
  • Chapter 5 Figuring Democracy
  • Chapter 6 History On Trial
  • Chapter 7 Alien-Nation
  • Chapter 8 Beyond Bare Life

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