Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capitalism. Vivek Chibber

      

      Postcolonial Theory and

       the Specter of Capital

      Vivek Chibber

       Dedication

      For Nivedita

      Contents

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

      DEDICATION

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND SUBALTERN STUDIES

1.1Postcolonial Studies as Analysis and Critique

1.2The Rise of Subaltern Studies

1.3Subaltern Studies as Theory

1.4Assessing Subaltern Studies

1.5The Failure of Subaltern Studies

1.6What This Book Is Not

CHAPTER 2: DOMINANCE WITHOUT HEGEMONY: THE ARGUMENT EXPLAINED

2.1Subaltern Studies in Context

2.2The Roots of the Postcolonial Crisis

2.3The Two Paths to Bourgeois Power

2.4Capital’s Universalizing Tendency and the Bourgeois Revolutions

2.5Universalization Abandoned: Capital’s Colonial Venture

2.6Conclusion

CHAPTER 3: DOMINANCE WITHOUT HEGEMONY: THE ARGUMENT ASSESSED

3.1The English Revolution

3.2The French Revolution

       3.3Conclusion

       CHAPTER 4: DOMINANCE WITHOUT HEGEMONY: THE ARGUMENT IN CONTEXT

       4.1Bourgeois Interests and Land Reform

       4.2The Bourgeoisie and Subaltern Classes

       4.3The Bourgeoisie and Nation-Building

       4.4The Postcolonial Crisis Revisited

       4.5Critique or Apologia? Subalternists as the New Whigs

       4.6Conclusion

       CHAPTER 5: CAPITAL’S UNIVERSALIZING TENDENCY

       5.1What Is at Stake

       5.2What Does Capitalism Universalize?

       5.3Capital and Power

       5.4Conclusion

       5.5Postscript: The Bogey of a “Hyperreal Europe”

       CHAPTER 6: CAPITAL, ABSTRACT LABOR, AND DIFFERENCE

       6.1The Problem Defined

       6.2Capitalism and Abstract Labor

       6.3From Socially Necessary Labor to Abstract Labor

       6.4Abstract Labor and Social Hierarchies

       6.5Capitalism and Social Hierarchies

       6.6The Real Engine of Democratization

       6.7Conclusion

       CHAPTER 7: CULTURE, INTERESTS, AND AGENCY

       7.1Elementary Aspects as History from Below

       7.2The Peculiarities of the Indian Peasantry

       7.3Peasant Psychology in Elementary Aspects

       7.4Individual and Community in Late Colonial Bengal

       7.5Chatterjee’s Contradictions

       7.6Conclusion

       CHAPTER 8: INTERESTS AND THE OTHER UNIVERSALISM

       8.1The Conventional Analysis of Worker Consciousness

       8.2Chakrabarty’s Alternative to the Conventional Analysis

       8.3Reasons and Interests

       8.4Interests and Culture

       8.5The Universal History of Class Struggle

       8.6The Other Universalism

       8.7Conclusion

       CHAPTER 9: THE (NON)PROBLEM OF HISTORICISM

       9.1What Is at Stake

       9.2The Two Histories of Capital

       9.3The Problem of Historicism

       9.4Abstract Categories and the Real History of Capital

       9.5Historicism as a Non-Problem

       9.6Capitalism and Diversity Revisited

       9.7Conclusion

       CHAPTER 10: THE NATION UNMOORED

       10.1The Two Dimensions of Anticolonial Nationalism

       10.2Nationalism and the Cunning of Reason

       10.3Nationalism and the Modernizing Imperative

       10.4The Missing Counterfactual

       10.5Modernization as Prison House?

       10.6The Disappearance of Modernizing Nationalism

       10.7Conclusion

       CHAPTER 11: CONCLUSION: SUBALTERN STUDIES AS IDEOLOGY