Contesting Colonial Hegemony

Contesting Colonial Hegemony

Author: Dagmar Engels

Publisher: British Academic Press

Published: 1994-03-25

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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. The contributors are distinguished scholars from Europe, the USA and India, who have written extensively on the social history of India and Africa. Through their essays they illustrate the strengths and limitations of applying the idea of hegemony to the colonial state and its subjects.


Contesting Colonial Authority

Contesting Colonial Authority

Author: Poonam Bala

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-04-12

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0739170244

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Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were projected against the cultural background of a rich medical tradition.


Performing Power

Performing Power

Author: Arnout van der Meer

Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications

Published: 2021-08-15

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781501758584

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"Discusses how colonial dominance in Indonesia, and in particular on Java, was legitimized and maintained as well as negotiated and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between colonizer and colonized, for instance through changes in language, etiquette, deference rituals, dress, consumer patterns, and lifestyles"--


Culture, Ideology, Hegemony

Culture, Ideology, Hegemony

Author: K. N. Panikkar

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 184331052X

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This volume explores the interconnections between culture, ideology and hegemony in an effort to understand and explain how Indians came to terms with colonial subjection and envisioned a future for the society in which they lived. The process of exploring the indigenous epistemological tradition and assessing it in the context of advances made by the west was not unilinear and undifferentiated; it was driven with contradictions, contentions and ruptures. Locating intellectual history at the intersection of social and cultural history, the eight essays in this book cover a wide range of issues, moving from an overview of religious and social ideas in colonial India to empirical studies of themes such as indigenous medicine, the family and literary fiction. Professor Panikkar contests both the imperialist and nationalist paradigms of intellectual history. Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, his analysis is illuminated by a rare sensitivity to the nature of class formation and class values, as well as to the material conditions of human existence.


Western medicine as contested knowledge

Western medicine as contested knowledge

Author: Andrew Cunningham

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1526162946

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Medicine has always been a significant tool of an empire. This book focuses on the issue of the contestation of knowledge, and examines the non-Western responses to Western medicine. The decolonised states wanted Western medicine to be established with Western money, which was resisted by the WHO. The attribution of an African origin to AIDS is related to how Western scientists view the disease as epidemic and sexually threatening. Veterinary science, when applied to domestic stock, opens up fresh areas of conflict which can profoundly influence human health. Pastoral herd management was the enemy of land enclosure and efficient land use in the eyes of the colonisers. While the native Indians of the United States were marginal participants in the delivery or shaping of health care, the Navajo passively resisted Western medicine by never giving up their own religion-medicine. The book discusses the involvement of the Rockefeller Foundation in eradicating the yellow fever in Brazil and hookworm in Mexico. The imposition of Western medicine in British India picked up with plague outbreaks and enforced vaccination. The plurality of Indian medicine is addressed with respect to the non-literate folk medicine of Rajasthan in north-west India. The Japanese have been resistant to the adoption of the transplant practices of modern scientific medicine. Rumours about the way the British were dealing with plague in Hong Kong and Cape Town are discussed. Thailand had accepted Western medicine but suffered the effects of severe drug resistance to the WHO treatment of choice in malaria.


The Imaginary Institution of India

The Imaginary Institution of India

Author: Sudipta Kaviraj

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010-05-06

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0231152221

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"The Imaginary Institution of India is the first major collection of Sudipta Kaviraj's essays and as such, will be received with great curiosity and attention."-Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles --


Knowledge and Decolonial Politics

Knowledge and Decolonial Politics

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9004380051

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Knowledge and Decolonial Politics: A Critical Reader offers the perspectives of educators and learners within current developmental settings, highlighting the systemic barriers faced whilst trying to implement decolonial pedagogies and practices. In the hope to challenge the dominance of Western Eurocentric thought in education and international development, the authors of this book offer counter narratives to promote the use of embodied cultural knowledges and histories, along with Indigenous perspectives, in order to subvert Western knowledge systems which are inherently colonial in nature. Changing education as we know it today requires creating spaces in which multiple knowledges can co-exist and benefit from one another. These spaces will ensure the continuity of decolonial practices and shape the intellectual politics of future generations. Contributors are: Olivia Aiello, Nana Bediako-Amoah, Shirleen Datt, George J. Sefa Dei, Chisani Doyle-Wood, Candice Griffith, Mandeep Jajj, Wambui Karanja and Lwanga G. Musisi.


Colonial Modernity in Korea

Colonial Modernity in Korea

Author: Gi-Wook Shin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1684173337

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The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation versus Korean resistance that has dominated the study of Korea’s colonial period (1910–1945) by adopting a more inclusive, pluralistic approach that stresses the complex relations among colonialism, modernity, and nationalism. By addressing such diverse subjects as the colonial legal system, radio, telecommunications, the rural economy, and industrialization and the formation of industrial labor, one group of essays analyzes how various aspects of modernity emerged in the colonial context and how they were mobilized by the Japanese for colonial domination, with often unexpected results. A second group examines the development of various forms of identity from nation to gender to class, particularly how aspects of colonial modernity facilitated their formation through negotiation, contestation, and redefinition.


The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya

The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya

Author: Anthony Milner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-07-18

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780521003568

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This innovative book is a pioneering study of political debate in an important Southeast Asian society. Now available in paperback it re-examines the formative period in Malay nationalism and argues against using nationalism as the paradigm of analysis.'This magnificent book is certainly essential reading for Malaysianists and Malaysians interested in the intrigues and mystique of Malay politics, in the past and at present.' Shamsul, A.B., Asian Studies Review'The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya is a model of its kind and will undoubtedly become a landmark in Malaysian studies and an example to those in other fields. It is a stylish and highly readable essay in cultural history.' William R Roff, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies