The ideological condition : : selected essays on history, race and gender / / by Himani Bannerji.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 212
• VerfasserIn: Bannerji, Himani,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 212.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender is a reader comprised of many of Himani Bannerji's English writings over a long period of teaching and research in Canada and India. Bannerji creates an interdisciplinary analytical method and extends the possibilities of historical materialism by predominantly drawing on Marx, Gramsci, and Dorothy Smith. Essays here instantiate Marx's general proposition that while all ideology is a form of consciousness, all forms of consciousness are not ideological. Applying this insight to issues ranging from patriarchy through race, class, nationalism, liberalism and fascism, Bannerji breaks through East-West binaries, challenging the mystifying approaches to the constitution of the social, and shows that a sustained struggle against ideological thinking is at the heart of a fundamental socialist struggle.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Methods -- Section 1 Ideology and the Social -- 1 Building from Marx: Reflections on 'Race', Gender and Class -- 2 Marxism and Antiracism in Theory and Practice -- 3 Ideology -- 4 But Who Speaks for Us? Experience and Agency in Conventional Feminist Paradigms -- 5 Politics and the Writing of History -- 6 Ideology, Anti-colonialism and Marxism -- -- Section 2 Ideology and History -- 7 Tradition of Sociology and Sociology of Tradition: The Terms of Our Knowledge and the Knowledge Produced -- 8 Beyond the Ruling Category to What Actually Happens: Notes on James Mill's Historiography in The History of British India -- 9 Pygmalion Nation: Critique of Subaltern Studies' Resolution of the Women Question -- -- Part 2 The Making of a Subject: Gender, 'Race' and Class -- 10 Introducing Racism: Notes towards an Antiracist Feminism -- 11 In the Matter of X: Building 'Race' into Sexual Harassment -- 12 Attired in Virtue: Discourse on Shame [ Lajja ] and Clothing of the Gentlewoman [ Bhadramahila ] in Colonial Bengal -- 13 Fashioning a Self: Educational Proposals for and by Women in Popular Magazines in Colonial Bengal -- 14 Age of Consent and Hegemonic Social Reform -- Part 3 Nation, Multiculturalism, Identity and Community -- 15 The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and 'Women of Colour' -- 16 On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and the State of 'Canada' -- 17 A Question of Silence: Reflections on Violence against Women in Communities of Colour -- 18 The Passion of Naming: Identity, Difference and Politics of Class -- 19 Truant in Time -- Part 4 Nationalism, Gender and Politics -- 20 Making India Hindu and Male: Cultural Nationalism and the Emergence of the Ethnic Citizen in Contemporary India -- 21 Writing 'India', Doing 'Ideology': William Jones' Construction of India as an Ideological Category -- 22 Demography and Democracy: Reflections on Violence against Women in Genocide or Ethnic Cleansing -- 23 Cultural Nationalism and Woman as the Subject of the Nation -- 24 Patriarchy in the Era of Neoliberalism: The Case of India -- Part 5 Class, Culture and Representation -- 25 The Mirror of Class: Class Subjectivity and Politics in Nineteenth Century Bengal -- 26 Language and Liberation: A Study of Political Theatre in West Bengal -- 27 Nation and Class in Communist Aesthetics and the Theatre of Utpal Dutt -- Part 6 Decolonisation -- 28 Nostalgia for the Future: The Poetry of Ernesto Cardinal -- 29 A Transformational Pedagogy: Reflections on Rabindranath's Project of Decolonisation -- 30 Beyond the Binaries: Notes on Karl Marx's and Rabindranath Tagore's Ideas on Human Capacities and Alienation -- 31 Himani Bannerji in Conversation with Somdatta Mandal -- Bibliography -- Index.