Subjects of modernity : time-space, disciplines, margins

CITATION: Dube, S. 2017. Subjects of modernity : time-space, disciplines, margins. Stellenbosch: SUN PRESS, doi:10.18820/9781928357452.The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za“Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of the modern: the modern subject’s inevitable entanglement with those subject to modernity. A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies.” – Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago.https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za/book/subjects-of-modernity-time-space-disciplines-margins/424191Publisher's versio

Cultura política y subalternidad en América Latina

Spa: Cómo escribir una historia que incluya a la gran mayoría de personas que vivieron en el pasado?  Por medo siglo esta pregunta ha tenido una cierta urgencia, no sólo por razones historiográficas sino también porque la respuesta ha sido considerada central en los proyectos que  buscan ganar la inclusión en la sociedad de grupos sociales previamente excluidos.  En la década de 1960 la historia social creció rápidamente y tuvo bastante éxito en ayudar a nuestra comprensión de muchos grupos sociales, como los esclavos, las mujeres y los obreros, especialmente en lo tocante a su vida cotidiana y sus labores.  Sin embargo, estas personas que entraron en la historia social raramente aparecieron en la historia política, salvo en resistencia a la política dominante.Primera edició

A Forgotten Adivasi Landscape: Museums and Memory in western India

This article focuses on processes of remembering, forgetting and re-remembering. It examines a fundamental tension between the project of retrieving an adivasi past, initiated by an adivasi museum in rural western India, and the social and material landscape surrounding it, characterised instead by fragmentation and separation from the identity of adivasi. The article reflects on a collaborative research project between the researcher, young adivasi curators and inhabitants of the area adjoining the museum. It shows how, while curators engaged in a project of recuperation, at the same time, they were distancing themselves from their traditional identity by joining reform movements and new religious sects. Processes of memory and forgetting, however, also co-existed. People held multiple identities and the process of retrieving the past also called for transformation and reform. The article is a timely contribution to debates about adivasi identity, social transformation and religious reform. It also offers a reflection on the new role of indigenous museums and their potential to address a ‘crisis of postcolonial memory’ (Werbner 1998). Finally, it contributes to discussions of methodology with a focus on the collaborative process of collecting and its role in eliciting or preventing certain kinds of memories

Scandalous Subjects

Este artículo explora los problemas y posibilidades de lo postcolonial en tanto que concepto y orientación, categoría y entidad. Tamiza las expresiones postcoloniales a través de los filtros de la crítica para lograr que dos tareas devengan palpables. Por una parte, a lo primero que nos enfrentamos es a los escándalos de la nación y de Occidente, así como al ultraje de lo postcolonial en sí mismo. Por otra parte, se destacan protocolos de investigación que no conducen simplemente a un menoscabo de los ‘fundamentos’ sino que apuntan a procedimientos de afirmación crítica enraizados en lo que yo llamo una historia sin garantía. Aquí se encuentran disposiciones que cuestionan de manera juiciosa y elaboran con prudencia asuntos de poder y diferencia, autoridad y alteridad y que incluyen consideraciones críticas de la modernidad y sus discusiones filosóficas e históricas en Occidente. This essay explores the problems and possibilities of the postcolonial as word and orientation, as category and entity. It sieves postcolonial expressions through critical filters to make two tasks palpable. On the one hand, faced forthwith are the scandals of the nation and the West as well as the outrage of the postcolonial itself. On the other hand, brought to the front are protocols of probing that do not merely lead to an undoing of “foundations” but point to procedures of critical affirmation embedded within a history without guarantee. Here are to be found dispositions that carefully question and prudently elaborate issues of power and difference, authority and alterity, including through critical considerations of modernity and its philosophical and historical discussions in the West

Identidades culturales y sujetos históricos: estudios subalternos y perspectivas poscoloniales

Este artículo discute sobre temas de identidades arraigados y articulados en las perspectivas poscoloniales y en los estudios subalternos. Al hablar de identidades, me refiero a los procesos amplios de formaciones de sujetos que expresan no sólo personalidades particulares, sino también agrupaciones colectivas. Con tal entendimiento, las identidades comprenden un medio crucial a través del cual los procesos sociales se perciben, se experimentan y se expresan. De hecho, definidas en relaciones históricas de producción y reproducción, apropiación y aprobación, poder y diferencia, las identidades culturales (y susmutaciones) son elementos esenciales en la constitución cotidiana (y las transformaciones incesantes) de los mundos sociales. Asimismo, discute la forma en que los enfoques poscoloniales y subalternos han considerado a las identidades culturales e históricas como parte de las elaboraciones críticas, a la vez teóricas y empíricas, de colonia e imperio, historia y comunidad, y nación y modernidad

Religion, identity and authority among the Satnamis in colonial central India

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Scandalous Subjects

This essay explores the problems and possibilities of the postcolonial as word and orientation, as category and entity. It sieves postcolonial expressions through critical filters to make two tasks palpable. On the one hand, faced forthwith are the scandals of the nation and the West as well as the outrage of the postcolonial itself. On the other hand, brought to the front are protocols of probing that do not merely lead to an undoing of “foundations” but point to procedures of critical affirmation embedded within a history without guarantee. Here are to be found dispositions that carefully question and prudently elaborate issues of power and difference, authority and alterity, including through critical considerations of modernity and its philosophical and historical discussions in the West.