From the blurb; 'In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalisation. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation's writers and poets in that process. Through close readings of the poems, short stories, and novels brought into the conversation with scholarship in anthropology, sociology, politics, and economics, Tadiar demonstrates how the devalued experiences of the Philippines' vast subaltern populations—experiences that "fall away" from the attention of mainstream and progressive accounts of the global capitalist present—help to create the material conditions of social life that feminists, urban activists, and revolutionaries seek to transform. Reading these "fallout" experiences as vital yet overlooked forms of political agency, Tadiar offers a new and provocative analysis of the unrecognized productive forces at work in global trends such as the growth of migrant domestic labour, the emergence of postcolonial "civil society," and the "democratisation" of formerly authoritarian nations.'
Onsite
English
Philippines,  globalisation
2009
484
9789715426657
1
monograph
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