Between Identity and Location: The Cultural Politics of Theory

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What is thinking and what is theory? What is theoretical thinking and how does such a thought find its balance between specialist erudition and commonsensical intention? How is the relationship of theory to itself mediated by its practical commitment to instrumental Reason? What is the connection between theory and the proliferating discourses of “post-ability”? Is academic-institutional theory capable of recognizing the reality of a world structured in dominance: between the West and the Rest, between the so called first and third worlds? How do the politics of location and subject positionality complicate and problematize the valence between representation and the object of representation?
How do intellectual and pedagogical paradigms function in a global world that is simultaneously expanding and shrinking: between homes and location, nationalism and diasporas, ways of being and modes of knowing? Situated at the intersections of postcoloniality and poststructuralist, the essays in this book raise these questions as ongoing answers in the dialectic between intimacy and distance, solidarity and critique, between the language of being and the being of language.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Radhakrishnan

R. Radhakrishna is Director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai since March 2001. From April 1998 to March 2001, he was the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University. After his doctorate from Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics, Pune, Prof. Radhakrishna had about three decades of career in research, teaching and administration of academic institutions. He was the Member Secretary, ICSSR and was the Director, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad. He was the recipient of VKRV Rao Price in social Science Research for his significant contribution in the field of Economics. He was President of the Agricultural Marketing Society and of the Indian society of Labour Economics for the Year 2001. He was a consultant to international organisations like ABD, FAO, The world Bank and UNDP and UNESCO. He was a member of several Government Committees including the Expert Group on Estimation of Proportion and Number of Poor (Lakdawala Committee), Planning Commission, Government of India (1989-93) and High Power Committee for Long term Grain Policy (Abhijit Sen Committee), Government of India, 2000-02.

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Title
Between Identity and Location: The Cultural Politics of Theory
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8125031561
Length
249p.
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