Postcolonial studies and the challenge of climate change

New Literary History

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Chakrabarty, Dipesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 84861797665     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2012.0007     Document Type: Review

References (52)

1. See my "Belatedness as Possibility: Subaltern Histories, Once Again" in The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader, ed. Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri (New York: Routledge, 2011), 163-76.
2. I discuss these developments in "An Anti-Colonial History of the Postcolonial Turn: An Essay in Memory of Greg Dening", Second Greg Dening Memorial Lecture (Melbourne, Australia: Department of History, The University of Melbourne, 2009), 11-13.
3. During gives his own account of these times in his introduction to The Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Simon During (New York: Routledge, 1993).
4. Lata Mani, "The Production of an Official Discourse on Sati In Early Nineteenth Century Bengal", in Europe and Its Others, ed. Frances Barker and others (Colchester: Univ. of Essex Press, 1985), 1:107-27. The book was published in two volumes out a conference held at Essex in July 1984 on the subject of "the Sociology of Literature"
5. See Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983)
6. and Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1973). I have tried to bring Guha and White together in my essay
7. "Subaltern History as Political Thought" in Colonialism and Its Legacies, ed. Jacob T. Levy with Marion Iris Young (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), 205-18.
8. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988), 271-313.
9. On all this, see E. P. Thompson, The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978).
10. The locus classicus for this position is still Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994).
11. See Homi K. Bhabha, "Global Pathways" (unpublished).
12. Homi K Bhabha, "Notes on Globalization and Ambivalence" in Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation, ed. David Held, Henrietta L. Moore, Kevin Young (Oxford: Oneworld, 2008), 39.
13. Bhabha, "Notes", 39-40.
14. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000), 361-62
15. cited in Homi K. Bhabha, "Our Neighbours, Ourselves: Contemporary Reflections on Survival" (unpublished), 3. For Hardt and Negri's critique of Bhabha and of postcolonialism generally
16. see Empire, 137-59.
17. Bhabha, "Our Neighbours", 3-4.
18. Bhabha paraphrasing Arendt in "Notes", 38.
19. Bhabha, "Notes." Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (London: Verso, 2006). For details on the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement
20. see their website http://www.abahlali.org/.
21. I read Partha Chatterjee's Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2004) as symptomatic of this predicament.
22. See Manuela Bojadžijev and Isabelle Saint-Saëns, "Borders, Citizenship, War, Class: A Discussion with Étienne Balibar and Sandro Mezzadra", New Formations 58(2006):10-30.
23. See the map reproduced in Rochona Majumdar, Writing Postcolonial History (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010), 15. Thanks to Sandro Mezzadra for bringing these maps to my and Majumdar's attention.
24. Etienne Balibar, "Europe: An 'Unimagined' Frontier of Democracy", Diacritics 33, no. 3-4(2003):36-44.
25. Also Etienne Balibar, We the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship, trans. James Swenson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2004), 7.
26. See Balibar, We the People of Europe? and note 21 below.
27. Gerhard Stilz and Ellen Dengel-Janic, eds., South Asian Literatures (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftslicher Verlag, 2010);
28. Sandro Mezzadra, La Condizione Postcoloniale: storia e politica nel presente globale (Verona: Ombre Corte, 2008).
29. See the recent documentary film Climate Refugees (2009) made by Michael P. Nash. http://www.climaterefugees.com/.
30. Sunita Narain and Anil Agarwal, Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism (Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment, 1991)
31. For an elaboration of this point, see my essay "Verändert der Klimawandel die Geschichtsschreibung?" Transit 41(2011):143-63.
32. I discuss historiographical and some philosophical implications of the Anthropocene hypothesis in my essay, "The Climate of History: Four Theses", Critical Inquiry 35, no. 2(2009):197-222.
33. See also Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill, "The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?" Ambio 36, no. 8(2007):614-21 and the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society edited
34. by Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Alan Haywood, and Michael Ellis, "The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?" (2011): 835-41.
35. 2 during the past decades", Tellus 9(1957):18-27
36. rcited in Weather and Climate Modification: Problems and Prospects, vol. 1, summary and recommendations. Final Report of the Panel on Weather and Climate Modification to the Committee on Atmospheric Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1966), 88-89.
37. Restoring the Quality of Our Environment (Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel, President's Science Advisory Committee) (Washington: The White House, 1965), Appendix Y4, 127.
38. [Report of the] Committee on Atmospheric Sciences, National Research Council (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1973), 160.
39. David Archer, The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Climate of the Planet for the Next 100, 000 years (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2010).
40. Tom Griffiths, Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2007), 200.
41. Archer, The Long Thaw, 9.
42. Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2004).
43. Also see the debate between David Bloor and Bruno Latour: Bloor, "Anti-Latour", and Latour, "For David Bloor... And Beyond", in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 30, no. 1(1999):81-112 and 113-29.
44. J. Bruce Brackenridge, The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1995)
45. Quoted in Michael Hulme, Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction, and Opportunity (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009), 334.
46. Valerie A. Brown, Peter M. Deane, John A Harris, and Jaqueline Y. Russell, "Towards a Just and Sustainable Future", in Tackling Wicked Problems: Through the Transdisciplinary Imagingation, ed. Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris, and Jaqueline Y. Russell (London, Washington: Earthscan, 2010), 4.
47. Hulme, Why We Disagree, 336.
48. Ulrich Beck, "The Naturalistic Misunderstanding of the Green Movement: Environmental Critique as Social Critique", in Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk, trans. Amos Weisz (Cambridge: Polity, 1995), 36-57.
49. See also the discussion in Ursula K. Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008), chap. 4.
50. Latour, Politics of Nature, 47
51. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 2nd ed., introduction by Margaret Canovan (1958; Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998), 1-2.
52. Arendt, The Human Condition, 46.