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The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power

Nermeen Shaikh

Paper, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14299-1
$24.50 / £17.00

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December, 2007
Cloth, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14298-4
$74.50 / £51.50

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. The Global Economy

1. Amartya Sen

2. Helena Norberg Hodge

3. Sanjay Reddy

4. Joseph Stiglitz

Part 2. Postcolonialism and the New Imperialism

5. Partha Chatterjee

6. Mahmood Mamdani

7. Anatol Lieven

Part 3. Feminism and Human Rights

8. Shirin Ebadi

9. Lila Abu Lughod

10. Saba Mahmood

11. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Part 4. Secularism and Islam

12. Talal Asad

13. Gil Anidjar

Notes on Interviewees

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

About the Author

Nermeen Shaikh has worked at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad and the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. She works at the Asia Society in New York City.

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