TCS 27. 7&8 ANNUAL REVIEW
The 2009 Theory, Culture and Society Annual Review offers a lively mixture of articles, debates and interventions that have a trans-disciplinary and global focus. In the year of Jack Goody’s 90th birthday, there is a special section on his idea of comparative history. A further section explores notions of modernity, globality and critique in the context of Latin America. In the Global Public Life section of this volume there are articles on C.Wright Mills’s sociological imagination fifty years on, and a number of rapid responses to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Occidentalism: Jack Goody And Comparative History
Editors: Mike Featherstone, Peter Burke & Stephen Mennell
Mike Featherstone
Introduction
Peter Burke Jack Goody and the Comparative History of Renaissances
Ken Pomeranz Putting Modernity in its Place(s): Reflections on Jack Goody’s The Theft of History
Katie Liston & Stephen Mennell Ill Met in Ghana: Jack Goody and Norbert Elias on Process and Progress in Africa
Aziz Al-Azmeh Jack Goody And The Location Of Islam
Jonathan Friedman Occidentalism and the categories of hegemonic rule
Boaventura de Sousa Santos A Non-Occidentalist West?:Learned Ignorance and Ecology of Knowledge
Chris Hann The Theft of Anthropology
Jack Goody Response
Latin America: Modernity, Globality, Critique
Editor: Jose Mauricio Domingues
José Maurício Domingues & Manuela Boatcă Introduction to Latin America: Modernity, Globality, Critique
Walter Mignolo The de-colonial option: epistemic and political de-linking
Joao Feres Júnior Representing Latin America through pre-Columbian art: political correctness and the semantics of othering
Jose Maurício Domingues Modernity and Modernizing Moves: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Global Public Life
Thomas Kemple & Renisa Mawani The Sociological Imagination and its Imperial Shadows
Cecilia Sosa REVIEW: The Headless Woman (2008), directed by Lucrecia Martel - A counter-narrative of Argentinean mourning
Vikki Bell On Fernando’s Photograph: The Bio-Politics Of Aparición In Contemporary Argentina
Mumbai: City As Target
Editors: Ryan Bishop and Tania Roy
Ryan Bishop & Tania Roy Mumbai: City as Target. An Introduction
Steve Graham The Urban 'Battlespace'
Edgar Pieterse African Reverberations of the Mumbai Attacks
Caren Kaplan The Biopolitics of Technoculture in the Mumbai Attacks
Tania Roy Mumbai, ‘India's 9/11’: Accidents of a Moveable Metaphor
Benjamin Bratton On Geoscapes and the Google Caliphate: Reflections on the Mumbai Attacks
Jon Coaffee Protecting The Urban: The Dangers Of Planning For Terrorism
Review Article
John Phillips Art, Politics, and Philosophy: Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière
TCS Annual Review is an additional double issue produced at the end of each volume.
For more than twenty years Theory, Culture & Society has systematically addressed the central issues in social and cultural theory. It is this capacity to keep abreast of the latest theoretical issues and generate a new agenda, which is behind the development of the Theory, Culture and Society Annual Review. The Annual Review will feature innovative material which has a transdisciplinary focus. It will provide in-depth, yet accessible discussions of recent developments at the cutting-edge of social science, cultural studies, gender studies, and literary, art and media theory. The intention is to develop an increasingly global scope both in terms of content and contributors. Some of the sections within the Theory, Culture and Society Annual Review will have a more discursive and magazine style focus, such as commentaries on global public life and the reviews of exhibitions, events, conferences, as well as books.
“The Annual Review promises to continue and constellate the clear strengths of Theory, Culture and Society, providing a venue for innovative social theory that engages contemporary cultural formations of interest to a wide range of scholars. This work brings together major social theorists from a variety of disciplines and works to produce and sustain a broadly interdisciplinary conversation on new forms of cultural and social criticism, philosophy and social theory, and a broad conception of culture that spans anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This is a widely respected journal that has claimed attention throughout the English-speaking world, and the Annual Review will doubtless distil its contributions in highly valued ways.”
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley.
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