In this talk presented by MA Critical Theory and the Arts, Nivedita Majumdar will critically review one of the central claims of postcolonial theory: that it upholds the social agency of dominated ...

- A term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. openDemocracy’s Discourses exhibition and discussion series is ...

The question of whether Ukraine is postcolonial may seem an abstruse matter, one best left to scholars. Yet it raises some fundamental issues about the nature of Ukrainian politics. These issues ...

With Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, Vivek Chibber challenges the post-Marxist theories of a major postcolonial historical research project known as Subaltern Studies. The project, ...

Vivek Chibber's critique (Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital) of the Subaltern Studies school deals largely with the early work of three authors - Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakrabarty and ...

Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India by Nissim Mannathukkaren, New Delhi: Routledge, 2022; pp 450, £38.99. Nissim Mannathukkaren’s book Communism, Subaltern ...

Counterpoints, Vol. 417, PEDAGOGY of the Other: Edward Said, Postcolonial Theory, and Strategies for Critique (2012), pp. 41-60 (20 pages) ...

The discipline of history in India developed in colonial times. This is well known. But what is remarkable is the sheer richness of its flowering in the post-independence period. Ranajit Guha, who ...