Arif Dirlik: 12 books
by Arif Dirlik
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with...
The Postcolonial Aura
Third World Criticism In The Age Of Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The essays in this volume range from questions of cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. Although the new era of global capitalism calls for the remapping of global relations, such remapping must...
Global Modernity
Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
"A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition." William D. Coleman, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University "An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism."...
What Is in a Rim?
Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1998
This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including...
by Roxann Prazniak, Arif Dirlik, John Brown Childs
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global...
Postmodernity's Histories
The Past as Legacy and Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2000
Challenges to the conventional study of history have been raised by the recent paradigm of globalization and by new intellectual transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. In this book the noted historian Arif Dirlik argues for a new approach to
the practice of historical research....
Schools into Fields and Factories
Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927–1932
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this collaborative effort by two leading scholars of modern Chinese history, Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik investigate how the short-lived National Labor University in Shanghai was both a reflection of the revolutionary concerns of its time and a catalyst for future radical experiments in education....
Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism
Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism. The themes have been selected for conceptual coherence within a...
Delimiting Modernities
Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial...
China and New Left Visions
Political and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development....
Pedagogies of the Global
Knowledge in the Human Interest
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The essays in this collection address questions raised by a modernity that has become global with the victory of capitalism over its competitors in the late twentieth century. Rather than erase difference by converting all to European-American norms of modernity, capitalist modernity as it has gone...
by Arif Dirlik, Alexander Woodside, Roxann Prazniak
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic...