"Through an engagement with selected texts, events and thinkers central to the present, this book offers an imagination of different possible futures from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that exist for conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring"--
Through an engagement with selected texts, events and thinkers central to the present, this book offers an imagination of different possible futures from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that exist for conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring.
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.
Introduction: Time, and the Politics and Poetics of Alternative Section
One: Social Transformation and the Space and Time of Nation 1 Karl Marx:
Colonialism, Nation Form, and Social Transformation 2 Home, World, and an
Uncertain Nation 3 In the Time of Nations Section Two: The Problematic of
Population and Power in Transformative Politics 4 The Problem of Population:
Recalling Marxs Critique of Malthus 5 Populations and Populism as a
Problematic in Transformative Politics Section Three: Two Universalisms:
Imperial Imaginary and Imaginary of the Oppressed 6 Hegels India and
Imperial Imaginary of the Universal 7 Annihilation of Caste and Universalism
of the Oppressed Section Four: Contentions and Antagonisms as Template of
Alternative Thinking 8 Charles Tillys Theorising of Contention 9 Genocide: A
Most Contentious Word and Concept of Modern time Section Five: Beyond the
Political, Imaginaries of Other Kinds 10 The Impossibility of Politics:
Brecht, Manto and Two Acts of Literature 11 Memories of the Forgotten Section
Six: Event as a Congealed Site of New Possibilities 12 Settling Account with
the Point of Origin: Marx, Engels, and the Revolution of 1848 13 October
Revolution as an Alternative in the Colonial and Postcolonial Time 14 Occupy
College Street, 1967-69 15 Crisis, Biopolitics from Below, and a New Model of
Public Power 16 Layers of Solidarity 17 Epilogue
Ranabir Samaddar is currently the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India. He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. His writings on migration, forms of labour, urbanisation, and political struggles have signalled a new turn in postcolonial thinking. Among his influential works are: The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal (1999) and Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (2018). His most recent publications are The Postcolonial Age of Migration (2020), and written in the background of the COVID pandemic, A Pandemic and the Politics of Life (2021).
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