Whitehead, Judith
Au Retour a Gramsci: Reflections on Civil Society, Political Society and the State in South Asia
This article critically analyses Partha Chatterjee's recent concepts of civil society and political society, showing that their binary character is derived from a culturalist conflation of
capitalism with modernity. In turn, modernity becomes equated with a naturalised liberal democratic state, precluding any appreciation of how resistance can and does shape the
character of the state. Second, it compares Chatterjee's categories of civil and political society to those of Gramsci, arguing that a return to classical Gramscian categories, along
with an appreciation of the impact of colonialism on state forms, can provide studies of resistance with a richer and more elegant understanding of social change from below in
contemporary India.
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Whitehead, Judith |
| Subjects |
Colonialismo
Società Civile Asia
Colonialism
Civil Society Asia |
