Postcolonialism Meets Economics

Table of Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 11
Preface and acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction: economics and postcolonial thought......Page 17
PART I The space of postcoloniality......Page 35
1 Articulating the postcolonial (with economics in mind)......Page 36
2 Postcolonial thought, postmodernism, and economics:
questions of ontology and ethics......Page 55
On the possibility of a postcolonial economic analysis:
a comment on Zein-Elabdin and Charusheela......Page 74
Disciplining postcolonialism and postcolonizing the disciplines......Page 80
PART II Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity......Page 86
3 Classical political economy and orientalism:
Nassau Senior’s eastern tours......Page 87
4 Trading bodies, trade in bodies: The 1878 Paris World Exhibition as economic discourse......Page 105
5 Economics and the postcolonial other......Page 127
Economics as a colonial discourse of modernity......Page 144
Political economy and postcolonial modernities......Page 150
PART III Economics as a contemporary hegemonic discourse......Page 156
6 The hungry ghost: IMF policy, global capitalist transformation, and laboring bodies in Southeast Asia......Page 157
7 Orientalism and economic methods: (Re)reading feminist economic discussions of Islam......Page 177
8 Writing economic theory anOther way......Page 195
Creating spaces: a comment on contemporary
discourses in economics......Page 213
Ethicizing economics, or for that matter, any discourse......Page 219
PART IV Toward a non-modernist economic analysis......Page 225
9 Hybrid thinking: Bringing postcolonial theory to colonial Latin American economic history......Page 226
10 Hegemony, ambivalence, and class subjectivity:
southern planters in sharecropping relations in
the post-bellum United States......Page 246
11 Contested states, transnational subjects: Toward a Post Keynesianism without modernity......Page 264
Econometrics and postcolonial theory: A commenton the fluidity of race......Page 282
Hybridity, hegemony, and heterodoxy: A new world......Page 286
Index......Page 292