{"product_id":"refashioning-futures-9780691004860","title":"Refashioning Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries  many of which face the collapse of both state and society in todays era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at \"deconstructing\" Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point  but that changing realities in these countries require a new approach. In Refashioning Futures  he proposes a strategic practice of criticism that brings the political more clearly into view in areas of the world where the very coherence of a secular-modern project can no longer be taken for granted.  Through a series of linked essays on culture and politics in his native Jamaica and in Sri Lanka  the site of his long scholarly involvement  Scott examines the ways in which modernity inserted itself into and altered the lives of the colonized. The institutional procedures encoded in these modern postcolonial states and their legal systems come under scrutiny  as do our contemporary languages of the political. Scott demonstrates that modern concepts of political representation  community  rights  justice  obligation  and the common good do not apply universally and require reconsideration. His ultimate goal is to describe the modern colonial past in a way that enables us to appreciate more deeply the contours of our historical present and that enlarges the possibility of reshaping it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67974781239349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691004862","price":81.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691004860.jpg?v=1794645859","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/refashioning-futures-9780691004860","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}