Whitehead, Judith

Au Retour a Gramsci: Reflections on Civil Society, Political Society and the State in South Asia

is part of Journal of Contemporary Asia , 45 , 4 , Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Taylor & Francis Ltd. , 2015 , pp. 660 - 676
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