Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene (Postcolonial Politics)

"Over the last four decades, Dipesh Chakrabarty's astonishingly wide-ranging scholarship has elaborated a range of important issues, especially those of modernity, identity, and politics - in dialogue with postcolonial theory and critical historiography - on global and planetary scales. All of this makes Chakrabarty among the most significant (and most cited) scholars working in the humanities and social sciences today. The present text comprises substantive yet short, academic yet accessible essays that are crafted in conversation with the critical questions raised by Chakrabarty's writings. Now, Chakrabarty holds the singular distinction of making key contributions to some of the most salient shifts in understandings of the Global South that have come about in wake of subaltern studies and postcolonial perspectives, critiques of Eurocentrism together with elaborations of public pasts, and articulations of climatic histories alongside problems of the Anthropocene. Rather than exegeses and commentaries, these original, commissioned, pieces - written by a stellar cast of contributors from four continents - imaginatively engage Chakrabarty's insights and arguments, in order to incisively explore important issues of the politics of knowledge in contemporary worlds. This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students interested in a wide variety of interdisciplinary issues across the humanities and social sciences, especially the interplay between postcolonial perspectives and subaltern studies, between man-made climate change and the human sciences, between history and theory, and between modernity and globalization"-- Provided by publisher Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Engaging Dipesh Chakrabarty: an introduction -- Part I Affect and intellect -- 2 Between critique and creativity: some other politics of writing history in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 3 Rethinking Indian constitutional history -- 4 The significance of Provincializing Europe: memory, argument, and the life of the book -- 5 Labour history and "Culture" critique: reflections on an idea -- Part II Critical conversations -- 6 Writing the void -- 7 Histories, dwelling, habitations: a cyber-conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty -- 8 A correspondence on Provincializing Europe -- Part III Global pasts and postcolonial differences -- 9 Rights and coercion: adivasi rights and coal mining in central India -- 10 When victims become rulers: partition, caste, and politics in West Bengal -- 11 The Cold War era as a rule of experts: a view from India -- 12 Historical wounds and the public life of history: the stolen generations narrative -- Part IV Historical disciplines and modern universals -- 13 Memory, historiography, and trauma: the limits of representation -- 14 Thinking Freedom with Gandhi -- 15 Western thought as "Indispensable and Inadequate": Dipesh Chakrabarty and the paradox of postcolonial historiography -- 16 Translating the other: lessons from the world of medieval Japan -- Part V The Anthropocene and other affiliations -- 17 History, anthropogenic soil, and unbecoming human -- 18 Art in the time of tricksters and monsters: reflections on the Anthropocene -- 19 Indigenous histories and indigenous futures -- 20 Figures of immanence -- Index Engaging Dipesh Chakrabarty : an introduction / Saurabh Dube, Sanjay Seth, Ajay Skaria -- Between critique and creativity : some other politics of writing history in Aotearoa New Zealand / Miranda Johnson -- Rethinking Indian constitutional history / Arvind Elangovan -- The significance of provincializing Europe : memory, argument, and the life of the book / Dwaipayan Sen -- Labor history and "culture" critique : reflections on an idea / Arnab Dey -- Writing the void / Homi K. Bhabha -- Histories, dwelling, habitations : a cyber-conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty / Saurabh Dube -- A correspondence on provincializing Europe / Amitav Ghosh and Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Rights and coercion : Adivasi rights and coal mining in Central India / Devleena Ghosh -- When victims become rulers : partition, caste, and politics in West Bengal / Partha Chatterjee -- The Cold War as a rule of experts : a view from India / Arvind Rajagopal -- Historical wounds and the public life of history : the stolen generations narrative / Bain Attwood -- Memory, historiography and trauma : the limits of representation / Sanjay Seth -- Thinking freedom with Gandhi / Ajay Skaria -- Western thought as "indispensable and inadequate" : Dipesh Chakrabarty and the paradox of postcolonial historiography / Alf Lüdtke -- Translating the other : lessons from the world of Medieval Japan / Rajyashree Pandey -- History, anthropogenic soil and unbecoming human / Ewa Domańska -- Art in the time of tricksters and monsters : reflections on the anthropocene / Bernd Scherer -- Indigenous histories and indigenous futures / Stephen Muecke -- Figures of immanence / Saurabh Dube