Can the ‘Subaltern’ Ride? A Reply to O'Hanlon and Washbrook

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyan Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Third World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Progressive Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Mode Of Production

The problem with Prakash, O'Hanlon and Washbrook conclude, is that he tries to ride two horses at once—one Marxist, the other poststructuralist deconstructionist. ‘But one of these may not be a horse that brooks inconstant riders. …’ So, they say we must choose only one to ride on, not both because the two, in their view, have opposing trajectories. One advances historical understanding and progressive change, the other denies history and perpetuates a retrogressive status quo. Posed in this manner, the choices involve more than a dispute over which paradigm provides a better understanding of the histories of the third world and India. At stake is the writing of history as political practice, and the only safe bet, from their point of view, is Marxism (of their kind), not the endless deferral and nihilism of deconstruction and postmodernism. Having set up this opposition, O'Hanlon and Washbrook's either/or logic has no place for the productive tension that the combination of Marxist and deconstructive approaches generates. They are uncomfortable with those recent writings that employ Marxist categories to analyze patterns of inequalities and exploitation while also using deconstructive approaches to contend that Marxism is part of the history that institutionalized capitalist dominance—approaches which argue that although Marxism can rightfully claim that it historicizes the emergence of capitalism as a world force, it cannot disavow its history as a nineteenth-century European discourse that universalized the mode-of-production narrative.

The Rise of the Algerian Elite, 1900–14

1967 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belkacem Saadallah
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Third World ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
The Third ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Third World

The present leaders in the Third World are mainly drawn from élites who, in one way or another, were the product of the colonial era. Algeria, of course, is no exception. Although she was always part of the Arab world, French rule, to which she was subjected for more than a century, left a strong impact. One of the results of the colonial era in Algeria was the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of a French-educated elite who tried, despite their limited number, to find a formula by which the native and colonial societies could live together harmoniously. The purpose of this short study is to trace the origins of these Algerians who, without doubt, were among the pioneers of these élites in Africa.

American Democracy and the Third World: Convergence and Contradictions

1979 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Great Leader ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

I propose to examine the relationship of American democracy to the Third World along two planes of reality, one briefly sketched in outline and miniature, the other drawn with greater elaboration and substance. The brief sketch sums up all that follows; it draws on America's great leader, Abraham Lincoln, who prophetically defined the issues that faced both the young American republic and today's fledgling nations by asking the question:Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Dilemmas for Anti-Western Patriotism: Slavophilism and Négritude

1974 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet G. Vaillant
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Third World ◽  
Underdeveloped Country ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
World War ◽  
The Third ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Third World

The idea that Russia was the first underdeveloped country has begun to gain currency among political scientists. It implies that social processes in Russia may be profitably compared with more recent developments in the Third World. In this article I would like to test this hypothesis with respect to an important ideological controversy which took place in Russia during the nineteenth century by examining it alongside discussions among French-speaking West Africans in the period after World War II. More particularly, I would like to compare what might be called the neo-traditional themes and anti-western patriotism of the Slavophiles with the intellectual position taken by the early spokesmen of négritude.

scholarly journals El sentido común crítico y la evaluación de las grandes tendencias históricas

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. F. Mansilla
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
The Third World

ResumenBasado en elementos de la filosofía clásica, el common sense británico y la Escuela de Frankfurt, el autor postula un sentido común guiado críticamente, que serviría para evaluar las tendencias históricas y los modelos de modernización en el Tercer Mundo. Evitando extremos, este teorema rechazaría tanto las pretensiones de verdad de muchos enfoques racionalistas como el relativismo epistemológico y ético. La existencia de leyes y etapas obligatorias de la historia es uno de esos extremos; otro es la opción teórica que afirma que los modelos culturales son incomparables e inconmensurables entre sí. La existencia de un solo paradigma normativo-positivo de desarrollo es insostenible, pero igualmente la posición que decreta la diversidad e incomparabilidad totales de los regímenes civilizatorios. Es conveniente adoptar una línea intermedia entre universalismo y particularismo y alcanzar una síntesis fructífera de ambos.Palabras claveEscuela de Frankfurt, Habermas, Kant, particularismo, sentido común, universalismoAbstractBased on elements of classical philosophy, the British common sense and the Frankfurt School, the author proposes a critically guided common sense, which could be used to evaluate historical tendencies and specially the modernization efforts in the Third World. Avoiding extremes, this theorem rejects the pretensions of truth of rationalist theories and also the epistemic and ethic relativism. The existence of obligatory laws and periods of historical development is one of these extremes; the other one is the position which states that cultural models are incomparable and immeasurable. It is reasonable, for instance, to take a middle way between universalism and particularism and also to reach a fruitful synthesis between both currents.KeywordsCommon sense, Frankfurt School, Habermas, Kant, particularism, universalism

scholarly journals New Design of Quarry Gravitricity

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samir REMLI ◽  
Djouama MOHAMED ◽  
Benselhoub AISSA ◽  
Rachid KHEBBAB ◽  
Nacereddine FELLOUH
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mines ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

The consumption of electric energy in open pit mines or quarries maybe can achieve the consumption of all inhabitants of a city which it is according to their size and production of ore. in the other hand, View that the demand crescent of energy electric in the world, the limits of energetic resources in the third world, the increase of prizes operation and the maintenance of classic energy, the environmental consequences of classic energy and the benefic for using the autonomy system for production of electricity incites for searching the other sources responds the demands, To do this, we propose in this work a system equipped by generator for the creation of electrical energy resulting from the traffic of trucks in open pit mines whom situated in mountainous reliefs as knows a new kind of gravitricity.

scholarly journals Andreas Papandreou’s Exile Politics: The First Phase (1968-1970)

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan Draenos
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Us ◽  
Initial Evolution ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

Andreas Papandreou’s exile politics, following his December 1967 release from Averoff Prison, have stereotypically been seen as simply adopting the neo-Marxist ideologies associated with the Third World national liberation movements of the era. In narrating the initial evolution of his views on the “Greek Question” in exile, this study attempts to surface the underlying dynamics responsible for radicalizing his politics in that direction. Those dynamics reflect, on the one hand, the relentless will-to-action informing Papandreou’s political persona and, on the other, the political upheavals, headlined by the protest movement against the US war in Vietnam, in which his politics were enmeshed.

scholarly journals Globalization and its Impact on the Third World Economy

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelam Kumar Sharma
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Third World ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Globalization is a controversial issue in the third world countries. ! is study tries to determine the factors associated with this controversy and explained the economic impacts of globalization in the third world countries on the basis of some of the scholars' arguments expressed on the subject. In the recent past, there have been the pros and cons of globalization in developing countries. Some argue that globalization is indeed a necessary evil to the third world countries that it can neither be rejected nor fully applied to its national policy. However, many others suggest that globalization should be looked at in all its manifestations and from different angles. In order to address this issue, when considered from the economic point of view, the negative economic impacts of globalization should be minimized and exportable capacity of the third world economy in the global market should be increased in a step by step manner. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v1i1.10465 Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.1(1) 2013; 21-28

The Compassion of Shared Spectatorship

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-136
Author(s):  
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Third World

Through his filming of bodies in poverty and squalor, Brillante Mendoza prevents the traditional consumption of the third world as enjoyable, entertaining, and educational, and instead enables a multisensorial immersion in a bewildering pandemonium that remains tense and uncomfortable. In this, the filmmaker questions the basis of identification: they suffer like me is replaced by they suffer unlike me. Yet the films demand a feeling, what I call shared spectatorship, for it is a mode of identification predicated not on pleasure but on difference as the necessary condition for us to mark our own positions outside that suffering. We are not inside the shoes or the soul of the other, rather the movie shows us our distance through representations of proximity that emphasize difference. His films butcher the spectator because people are rampantly butchered in the Philippines—as a fact and not a fantasy that his films concoct.

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