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Preface
Introduction: The Illusion of Anthropological Identity
PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL REIFICATIONS FROM ETHNICITY TO IDENTITY
Chapter 1. Toward Identification: The Unconscious Geopolitics of Ethnicity and Culture in Theory
- Disenfranchising Concepts from their Disciplinary Mindsets
- Reframing Ethnicity, Culture and Identity
- Discursive Fictions in the Geopolitics of Modernity, Nation-State, Colonialism, etc.
- Pragmatic Crises of Context in the Ecology of Social Process
- The Illusion of Identity and the Groundedness of L’Imaginaire
Chapter 2. The Diasporic Mind-field in the (Inter)Disciplinary Politics of Identity
- Diaspora as Cultural Phenomenon and Conceptual Problematic
- Diaspora as Explanatory or Emancipatory Concept in Disciplinary Perspective
- The Japanese ‘Diaspora’ in Postwar Taiwan
- Diasporic Identification as Subjective Positioning
PART II: BEYOND THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY OF WRITING CULTURE
Chapter 3. The Predicament of James Clifford in the Anthropological Imaginary
- The New and Newer Ethnography: A Short History of Consciousness
- The Fate of Geertz: ‘Culture’ and Beyond
Chapter 4. Writing Theory: Rethinking the Emancipation of the Author from his Function
- Theory, Literarily Speaking: Authorial Subjectivity from Text to Context
- Theory as Narrative: The Birth of Society and the Norm from Durkheim to Foucault
- The Limits of Imaginative Discourse within the Boundaries of Disciplinary Practices
- Unthinking the Disciplines: Steps toward an Ecology of Practice
PART III: CAN THE POSTCOLONIAL SPEAK IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY?
Chapter 5. Subaltern Studies as Historical Exception / Postcolonialism as Critical Theory
- Postcolonial Theories in the Concrete
- The Disciplinary Divide: Why Can’t the Post-colonial Speak in Sociological Theory?
- Subaltern Studies in the Abstract
- Decolonizing the Fog of American Identity: Lessons from Chineseness in Critical Reflexivity
- From Historical Exception to Theoretical Exceptionalism
Chapter 6. Nation as Norm, State as Exception: Unseen Ramifications of a Hyphenated Modernity
- On Geoffrey Benjamin’s (2015 [1985]) Deep Sociology of the Nation-State
- The Emergence of the State as Signifying Apparatus in the Practice of Modern Institutions
- Governmentality in the Critique of Social Theory, or the Return of Postcolonialism2
Bibliography
On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification
Allen Chun
174 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-203-8 Hb Published (April 2019)
eISBN 978-1-78920-204-5 eBook