Under Northern eyes: Latin American studies and US hegemony in the Americas; 1898 - 1990
In: Caribbean and Latin American studies
In: Caribbean and Latin American studies
In: Third world quarterly, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 717-728
ISSN: 0143-6597
In: Third world quarterly, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 717-728
ISSN: 0143-6597
A review essay on books by: Arif Dirlik, After the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism (London: Wesleyan U Press, 1994); & Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1995 [see listings in IRPS No. 86]). Both books attempt to critically examine global inequality while articulating alternative perspectives to the dominant accounts on development & social change. Escobar argues that the postwar international discourse on development focuses on the exertion of power over the Third World rather than on development. The three defining characteristics of this discourse include the process of knowledge production, wider power relations, & the types of subjectivity advanced by the development discourse. Escobar is criticized for failing to ground has analysis in the history of the Cold War. Dirlik, in contrast, engages in a wide-ranging history of capitalism from the eighteenth century in attempting to recast Marxism as relevant to the progressive politics of the late twentieth century. M. Greenberg
In: Third world quarterly, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 717-728
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Third world quarterly, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 257-275
ISSN: 0143-6597
World Affairs Online
In: Third world quarterly, Band 15, S. 257-275
ISSN: 0143-6597
Finds the term irrelevant in view of the rise of East Asia, economic conditions in the former Soviet Union, and the existence of underdevelopment within the industrialized nations; favors a global perspective.
In: Third world quarterly, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 257-275
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 73-82
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 73-82
ISSN: 0007-4810, 0898-7785
M. Berger takes a critical look at some British writers who are apologists for British imperialism in India. Especially, he reviews the book "The myth of the Mahatma: Gandhi, the British and the Raj" by Michael Edwardes. Berger thinks that Edwardes, like many other popular and academic writers, is perpetuating myths when he portrays India's British rulers as altruistic "guardians" and presents their presence in the sub-continent as a veritable blessing for the Indians. (DÜI-Sen)
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In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 44-62
ISSN: 0007-4810, 0898-7785
The article reviews the literature on the British conquest of Bengal specifically, and on the literature on imperialism more generally, insofar as it relates to the conquest of Bengal and eighteenth century British imperialism. After a review of the traditional defensive theories with their emphasis on political forces, the article turns to "sub-imperialism", psychological theories and traditional marxist economic theories. Neomarxist theories are then looked at, followed by an examination of non-marxist "synthetic" theories of imperialism. (DÜI-Sen)
World Affairs Online
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 44-62