Without History Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History |
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| Author:
| Rabasa, Jose |
| Series title: | Pitt Illuminations Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8229-6065-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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Rabasa offers new interpretations of the meaning of history from indigenous perspectives and develops the concept of a communal temporality that is not limited by time, but rather exists within the individual, community, and culture as a living knowledge that links both past and present. Rabasa recalls the works of Marx, Lenin, and Gramsci, and contemporary south Asian subalternists Ranajit Guha and Dipesh Chakrabarty, among others. He incorporates their conceptions of...
More DescriptionRabasa offers new interpretations of the meaning of history from indigenous perspectives and develops the concept of a communal temporality that is not limited by time, but rather exists within the individual, community, and culture as a living knowledge that links both past and present. Rabasa recalls the works of Marx, Lenin, and Gramsci, and contemporary south Asian subalternists Ranajit Guha and Dipesh Chakrabarty, among others. He incorporates their conceptions of communality, insurgency, resistance to hegemonic governments, and the creation of autonomous spaces as strategies employed by indigenous groups around the globe, but goes further in defining these strategies as millennial and deeply rooted in Mesoamerican antiquity.