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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vivekanandan, Jayashree

Titel

Introduction to the Special Issue on 'Chronicling the Histories of India: The Politics of Remembrance and Commemoration'

Ist Teil von

• India review (London, England), 2021-10, Vol.20 (5), p.483-496

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Postcolonialism has proven to be a fertile ground for interdisciplinary enquiries into the loci of power and agents of change. It has provoked intellectuals to ask probing questions about the exclusions, disparities and invisibilities they detect as pervading international politics, both elite and everyday. This sensibility has informed analyses that examined imperial associations with globalization, identity, memory, development, and indeed, with the international itself, among other issues. This distinctive aspect about its orientation-an abiding interest in drawing continuities between the past and the present-invariably brought historical depth into postcolonial formulations, even as these reopen history itself to critical scrutiny. In doing so, postcolonialism has prompted a richly textured engagement of International Relations (hereby IR) with history that has not only examined macro-historical processes but micro-histories as well. They bring out how elite politics intersected with the ordinary and the everyday, thereby constituting individual and collective memory.