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This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers. Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines a different future from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that emerge from the present and which shape contemporary radical thinking. An invitation to imagine a possible future marked with alternative possibilities of conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social and political theory, political philosophy, colonialism and postcolonialism, and historical materialism

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Revisiting The Age of Migration -- 2 Context, concepts, and method -- 3 Migrants in an earlier age of globalisation -- 4 The labouring subject of refugee economies -- 5 Postcolonial footprints of the ecological migrants -- 6 The spectral presence of the migrant -- 7 Insecure nation, insecure migrant -- 8 The postcolonial nature of Europe's migration crisis -- 9 Statelessness and the lost world of citizenship -- 10 Postcolonial marks on the principle of responsibility -- 11 The roadmap of global power and responsibility -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Offering a detailed analysis of post-colonial South Asia, The Politics of Dialogue discusses the creation and impact of borders and the pervasive tension between the new nations. Neither all-out war nor complete peace, this fragile condition makes political leaders and strategists feel claustrophobic - a war produces an end result but peace allows the rulers to carry out their policies for governing along their preferred path of development. The book shows how cartographic, communal and political lines are not only dividing countries, but that they are being replicated within countries, creating new visible and invisible internal frontiers. It argues that, in a situation where geopolitics constrains democracy, the political class becomes incapable of coping with the tension between the inside/outside, eg democracy appears as an internal problem and geopolitics appears as a problem related to the 'outside'."--Provided by publisher.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 The Post-colonial Bind of Greece -- Abstract -- A Post-colonial Debt Crisis -- Debt, Crisis, and the Democratic Closure -- Populism -- The Post-colonial Predicament and the Limits of the New European Left -- References -- 2 Rules of Dialogue: Seven Lessons from the Negotiations Between Europe and Greece -- Abstract -- In Berlin and Brussels -- In Washington and Elsewhere -- In Athens -- The Europe that Tsipras Wanted Greece to Attach with -- References -- 3 Europeanism: The Repressed Anxiety of a Transnational Intellectual Class

In the wake of the enormous interest across the globe in the fall of the Left Front in West Bengal, this book describes the Left era as one of passive revolution: limited reforms and changes, big compromises, corruption of the commissars and the failure of the Left in assessing popular discontent and anger; thus, it is the end of revolution even in passive form. A collection of articles by Samaddar from leading national dailies and journals between 1977 and the downfall of the Left in West Bengal, this books analyses the era of the Left rule, its political decisions and its social