Scott Omens of Adversity

Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7702-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of postcolonial temporality. David Scott argues that the palpable sense of the present as time stalled, without hope for emancipatory futures, has had far-reaching effects on how we think about justice and the nature of political action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue. Aftermaths 1

Part I. Tragedy, Time

1. Revolution's Tragic Ends: Temporal Dimensions of Political Action 33

2. Stranded in the Present: The Ruins of Time 67

Part II. Memory, Justice

3. Generations of Memory: The Work of Mourning 99

4. Evading Truths: The Rhetoric of Transitional Justice 127

Epilogue. The Temporality of Forgiving 165

Acknowledgments 173

Notes 177

Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

David Scott is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment and the editor of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, both also published by Duke University Press.