By Lisa Lowe
Reworking Marxist critique, those essays on Asia, Latin the US, the Caribbean, North the US, and Europe strengthen a brand new knowing of "cultural politics" in the context of transnational neocolonial capitalism. this angle contributes to an total critique of conventional methods to modernity, improvement, and linear liberal narratives of tradition, heritage, and democratic associations. It additionally frames a suite of different social practices that enables for connections to be made among feminist politics between immigrant girls in Britain, girls of colour within the usa, and Muslim girls in Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, and Canada; the paintings of subaltern experiences in India, the Philippines, and Mexico; and antiracist social hobbies in North and South the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. those connections displace modes of competition regularly outlined in terms of the trendy nation and allow a rethinking of political perform within the period of worldwide capitalism.
Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Nandi Bhatia, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Chungmoo Choi, Clara Connolly, Angela Davis, Arturo Escobar, supply Farred, Homa Hoodfar, Reynaldo C. Ileto, George Lipsitz, David Lloyd, Lisa Lowe, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Aihwa Ong, Pragna Patel, José Rabasa, Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Jaqueline Urla
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Tani Barlow's essay on the figure of "woman" in post-Maoist People's Republic of China suggests that the disciplining of women's bodies in culture is central to a state project that seeks to regulate the relationship between China and the larger network of Asian capitalist states. 22 Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd CULTURAL POLITICS AS ALTERNATIVE RATIONALITIES Transnational capitalism has reconfigured the mode of production in ways that are parasitic on the nation-state and its institutions, but rely on a disempowered citizenry; it continues to exploit labor, but redefines and differentiates who that labor is in terms of gender, race, and nation, and thus seeks to preclude the formation of a univocal international proletarian subject.
To the extent that this day has now become a "public" holiday in India, it has obviously been subjected to a process of bargaining among employers, workers, and the state. One could also argue that, insofar as the ideas of "recreation" and "leisure" belong to a discourse on what makes labor efficient and productive, this "religious" holiday itself belongs to the process through which labor is managed and disciplined and is hence a part of the history of emergence of abstract labor in commodity form (for the very "public" nature of the holiday shows that it has been written into an emergent national, secular calendar of production).
22. Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar, "On the Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism," in Reading Capital (London: Verso, 1968). 23. Aihwa Ong, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline; Swasti Mitter, Common Fate, Common Bond: Women in the Global Economy (London: Introduction 29 Pluto, 1986); Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labor (London: Zed Press, 1986). 24. As we have suggested concerning "Western Marxism," it is the case for "Western feminism" that its existence is not limited to the geographical West.