{"product_id":"on-the-geopragmatics-of-anthropological-identification-9781789202038","title":"On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eOn the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification\u003c\/em\u003e explores the discursive spaces of our speaking position, or what has routinely been referred to in the literature as the poetics and politics of writing culture. At issue here are its problematic underlying notions of cultural identity, authorial subjectivity and postcolonial critique. Contrary to the widespread assumption that cultural studies and the social sciences share a common discourse of culture and society, Allen Chun argues that 'modern' disciplinary practices and axioms have in fact produced inherently incompatible theories. Anthropology's ethical relativism has also created obstacles for a critical theory of culture and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Allen Chun's book is a wide-ranging, intelligent, critical and required manifesto for a reconfigured anthropology-cultural studies-social sciences.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• John Hutnyk\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ton Duc Thang University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Illusion of Anthropological Identity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: \u003cem\u003eANTHROPOLOGICAL REIFICATIONS FROM ETHNICITY TO IDENTITY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. Toward Identification: The Unconscious Geopolitics of Ethnicity and Culture in Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDisenfranchising Concepts from their Disciplinary Mindsets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tReframing Ethnicity, Culture and Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDiscursive Fictions in the Geopolitics of Modernity, Nation-State, Colonialism, etc.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPragmatic Crises of Context in the Ecology of Social Process\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Illusion of Identity and the \u003cem\u003eGroundedness of L’Imaginaire\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. The Diasporic Mind-field in the (Inter)Disciplinary Politics of Identity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDiaspora as Cultural Phenomenon and Conceptual Problematic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDiaspora as Explanatory or Emancipatory Concept in Disciplinary Perspective\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Japanese ‘Diaspora’ in Postwar Taiwan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDiasporic Identification as Subjective Positioning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: \u003cem\u003eBEYOND THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY OF WRITING CULTURE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. The Predicament of James Clifford in the Anthropological Imaginary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe New and Newer Ethnography: A Short History of Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Fate of Geertz: ‘Culture’ and Beyond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. Writing Theory: Rethinking the Emancipation of the Author from his Function\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTheory, Literarily Speaking: Authorial Subjectivity from Text to Context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTheory as Narrative: The Birth of Society and the Norm from Durkheim to Foucault\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Limits of Imaginative Discourse within the Boundaries of Disciplinary Practices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tUnthinking the Disciplines: Steps toward an Ecology of Practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: \u003cem\u003eCAN THE POSTCOLONIAL SPEAK IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. Subaltern Studies as Historical Exception \/ Postcolonialism as Critical Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPostcolonial Theories in the Concrete\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Disciplinary Divide: Why Can’t the Post-colonial Speak in Sociological Theory?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSubaltern Studies in the Abstract\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDecolonizing the Fog of American Identity: Lessons from Chineseness in Critical Reflexivity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFrom Historical Exception to Theoretical Exceptionalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. Nation as Norm, State as Exception: Unseen Ramifications of a Hyphenated Modernity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOn Geoffrey Benjamin’s (2015 [1985]) Deep Sociology of the Nation-State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Emergence of the State as Signifying Apparatus in the Practice of Modern Institutions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGovernmentality in the Critique of Social Theory, or the Return of Postcolonialism\u003csub\u003e2\u003c\/sub\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042552447319,"sku":"9781789202038","price":84.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789202038.jpg?v=1750954608","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-the-geopragmatics-of-anthropological-identification-9781789202038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}