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Working Through the Contradictions
San Juan, E., Jr.
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Description for Working Through the Contradictions
Hardback. Gathering together classic and new essays by the internationally renowned U.S.-based Filipino artist and thinker E. San Juan Jr., Working through the Contradictions addresses major issues of cultural theory, comparative politics, and international relations. Num Pages: 426 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 789.
Gathering together classic and new essays by the internationally renowned U.S.-based Filipino artist and thinker E. San Juan Jr., Working through the Contradictions addresses major issues of cultural theory, comparative politics, and international relations. Committed to the ideal of a popular, egalitarian democracy, San Juan exposes the limits of the current vogue of transnationalism, cosmopolitan humanitarianism, and varieties of dissentious multiculturalism. Opposing the triumphalist discourse of U.S.-centered globalization, San Juan reaffirms the value and power of a historical materialist critique of the "new world order." Connecting the theoretical debates in American Studies to the recent U.S. intervention in the Philippines ... Read more
Gathering together classic and new essays by the internationally renowned U.S.-based Filipino artist and thinker E. San Juan Jr., Working through the Contradictions addresses major issues of cultural theory, comparative politics, and international relations. Committed to the ideal of a popular, egalitarian democracy, San Juan exposes the limits of the current vogue of transnationalism, cosmopolitan humanitarianism, and varieties of dissentious multiculturalism. Opposing the triumphalist discourse of U.S.-centered globalization, San Juan reaffirms the value and power of a historical materialist critique of the "new world order." Connecting the theoretical debates in American Studies to the recent U.S. intervention in the Philippines ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481983
SKU
V9781611481983
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About San Juan, E., Jr.
An internationally recognized cultural critic and creative artist, E. San Juan Jr. is director of the Philippnes Cultural Studies Center in Connecticut. He was recently fellow of the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, and Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in Spring 2003. Among his recent books are Racism and Cultural Studies, Beyond Postcolonial ... Read more
Reviews for Working Through the Contradictions
"In Working through the Contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice, E. San Juan Jr. returns to champion the re-examination of the emancipatory and anti-Imperialist goals behind the cultural and social theories that initially helped to form the discipline of Cultural Studies upon a foudnation of social justice."
Michael Pozo, St. John's University Humanities Review (2004) "Working through the ... Read more
Michael Pozo, St. John's University Humanities Review (2004) "Working through the ... Read more