Subalternity and Difference - Investigations from the North and the South (Paperback, New)

This collection of essays presents examples of the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identity themselves in ways which defy the conventional categorisations of governments and indeed of historical experience. This often involves elements of hybridity as well as entirely novel forms of self-assertion. Inspired particularly by questions arising within the feminist movement, Pandey focuses on the idea of a differencea (TM) as a marker of subalternity, and asks how and in what ways liberal democracies can possibly be able to accommodate and live with difference.

Putting together this collection, Pandey not only encourages the reader to question normative ontological conventions of society and politics, but also to question some of the revolutionary ideologies which have sought to achieve radical change in the societies concerned by encouraging people to identity with particular a classa (TM) interestsa (TM). More interestingly still, the essays arouse questions about the concept of the a Subalterna (TM) and the meaning of a Subalternitya (TM) a " insisting that it should be understood through action and self-identification in relationship to repression, rather than as an abstract academic tool of analysis. In this way, Pandey, the historian, marries together interesting empirical studies and an over-arching new methodology for students of social and political and movements in the developed and developing world to consider.