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Gandhi Leela

    Leela Gandhi se sumerge en las complejidades de la teoría poscolonial, explorando cómo las filosofías y políticas que han dado forma a la historia mundial fueron influenciadas tanto por fuentes transnacionales como indígenas. Su trabajo profundiza en las capas más profundas del pensamiento, revelando la interconexión de diversas corrientes culturales e intelectuales. A través de sus contribuciones académicas y roles editoriales, fomenta un diálogo continuo dentro del pensamiento poscolonial. Gandhi ofrece análisis perspicaces que animan a los lectores a contemplar la historia y el presente con una profundidad renovada.

    Postcolonial Theory
    The Common Cause
    Affective Communities
    • Illuminates the history of western anti-imperialism through the stories of a number of specific friendships that flourished between South Asians and Europeans between 1878 and 1914.

      Affective Communities
    • The Common Cause

      • 240 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance. In this book, the authors recover stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning.

      The Common Cause
    • Postcolonial Theory

      • 296 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Leela Gandhi's Postcolonial Theory is a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms and its intellectual context. The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate.

      Postcolonial Theory