Suchergebnisse

Pollock introduces the essays of two contributors to the roundtable on the global humanities, Sundar Sarukkai and Syed Nomanul Haq, who focus on the state of humanities in India and Pakistan, respectively.

The past fifty years have seen a profound endangerment of the world's humanities capacity. While the crisis is far from unknown in the United States it is acute across the global south. Columbia University's Global Humanities Project assembled a group of scholars and administrators to provide preliminary reports on the condition of the humanities in Africa, the Arab World, South Asia, and China and Taiwan. The picture is, by and large, grim.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cosmopolitanisms -- Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History -- Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai -- Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital -- The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism -- ''Crushing the Pistachio'': Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago -- The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism -- Zhang Dali's Dialogue: Conversation with a City -- Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong -- Contributors -- Index