Subaltern Geographies

Mathew Coleman, Sapana Doshi, Tariq Jazeel, Stephen Legg

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780820354880, 9780820354590
• eBook ISBN: 9780820354606
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• Index: Social Sciences

Subaltern Geographies is the first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of subaltern studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical, and political geography. This edited volume explores this relationship by attempting to think critically about space and spatial categorizations.

Editors Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg ask: What methodological-philosophical potential does a rigorously geographical engagement with the concept of subalternity pose for geographical thought, whether in historical or contemporary contexts? And what types of craft are necessary for us to seek out subaltern perspectives both from the past and in the present? In so doing, Subaltern Geographies engages with the implications for and impact on disciplinary geographical thought of subaltern studies scholarship, as well as the potential for such thought. In the process, it probes new spatial ideas and forms of learning in an attempt to bypass the spatial categorizations of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism.

INDEX

1857 uprising (India), 7, 37

Abstraction, 38, 71, 135, 213–15, 222–26

Agency: Indigenous, 121, 133, 136

more-than-human, 119, 121, 126, 131–32, 136

peasant, 4, 6, 98

philosophical, 7, 12–16, 103–6, 211

political, 74, 75, 89, 95, 108, 212

political society and, 21

Agriculture, 9, 40, 44, 129

Ali, Surat, 110, 111, 114n14

Althusser, 9, 13, 28, 144

Amazonian region and peoples, 127, 167, 171–73, 176–80, 182–85

Ambiguity, 6, 9, 37, 46, 49, 69

Anti-Colonialism, 46, 108, 110–11, 124, 213

Archive: colonial, 4, 17–18, 26–27

historical narratives and, 14, 38, 63–64

transcultural, 195, 197–98, 204, 206

Autonomy: Indigenous, 127–28, 130–31, 170, 172, 176, 179

theoretical, 9–10, 12, 20–21, 51, 104

Bay of Bengal, 194, 198, 199, 201–3, 205–6

Bengal, 5, 26, 38, 58–71, 98–100, 213

Bolivia, 23, 120, 122, 127, 167–85

Caste, 23–24, 42–46, 49–51, 154–56, 158–59, 213–14

Chakrabarty, Dipesh: on class, 103–4, 108

on Eurocentrism, 17–19, 66

on urban theory, 25–26, 37–38, 214–16, 218, 227

Chatterjee, Partha: on autonomy, 9–11, 105–6

on particularism, 18, 68–69, 213–14

on political society, 20–21, 58, 60–61

cidob (Indigenous Confederation of the Bolivian East, Chaco and Amazon), 167, 169, 173, 179–80, 185

City, 36–53, 142–43, 156–60, 181, 218–19, 226

Civil society, 13, 18, 20, 94, 101, 158, 183

Colonialism: coloniality and, 19, 23, 120–25, 168–69, 181, 185

discourses of, 10, 63, 196–97

geography and, 3, 70, 121–22, 124

Communalism: religious groupings, 7, 37, 40, 44, 51

shared ownings, 72, 78, 130, 170–71, 173

Congress, Indian National, 7, 100, 111

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Subaltern Studies, Space, and the Geographical Imagination
• Subaltern Streets: India, 1870–1947
• Before Subaltern Studies: The Epistemology of Property
• Practicing Subalternity? Nyerere’s Tanzania, the Dar School, and Postcolonial Geopolitical Imaginations
• Reading Subaltern Studies Politically: Histories from Below, Spatial Relations, and Subalternity
• Pachamama, Subaltern Geographies, and Decolonial Projects in Andean Ecuador
• Time, Space, and the Subaltern: The Matter of Labor in Delhi’s Grey Economy
• Subaltern Geographies in the Plurinational State of Bolivia: The Tipnis Conflict
• Subaltern Sea? Indian Ocean Errantry against Subalternization
• Urban Fragments: A Subaltern Studies Imagination
• Contributors
• Index