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L’Europa tra il “globale” e il “planetario”. A vent’anni da Provincializing Europe
No full textDipesh Chakrabarty è considerato uno degli autori più significativi dei
subaltern studies indiani e delle teorie postcoloniali a livello
internazionale. Uno dei suoi lavori più noti e discussi, Provincializing
Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton-
Oxford 2000), ha rappresentato il punto di avvio di una discussione
intorno ai temi dell’Europa e della sua collocazione all’interno della
“globalità”. Nei suoi studi più recenti, focalizzati sulla relazione tra
uomo, ambiente e sistema capitalistico (come il volume The Planet
and the Human: The Anthropocene as Present, in corso di
pubblicazione), Chakrabarty ha tentato di ampliare l’impianto analitico
di Provincializing Europe, riflettendo sul progressivo superamento
dell’età della globalizzazione e sulla configurazione di una
contemporaneità caratterizzata da una crescente dialettica tra il
“globale” e il “planetario”. In questa intervista, che si è svolta
nell’estate-autunno del 2019, abbiamo sollecitato Dipesh Chakrabarty
a riflettere sui temi di Provincializing Europe alla luce delle
trasformazioni intervenute in Europa e nel mondo nel corso degli ultimi
vent’anni
L’Europa tra il “globale” e il “planetario”. A vent’anni da Provincializing Europe
No full textDipesh Chakrabarty è considerato uno degli autori più significativi dei
subaltern studies indiani e delle teorie postcoloniali a livello
internazionale. Uno dei suoi lavori più noti e discussi, Provincializing
Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton-
Oxford 2000), ha rappresentato il punto di avvio di una discussione
intorno ai temi dell’Europa e della sua collocazione all’interno della
“globalità”. Nei suoi studi più recenti, focalizzati sulla relazione tra
uomo, ambiente e sistema capitalistico (come il volume The Planet
and the Human: The Anthropocene as Present, in corso di
pubblicazione), Chakrabarty ha tentato di ampliare l’impianto analitico
di Provincializing Europe, riflettendo sul progressivo superamento
dell’età della globalizzazione e sulla configurazione di una
contemporaneità caratterizzata da una crescente dialettica tra il
“globale” e il “planetario”. In questa intervista, che si è svolta
nell’estate-autunno del 2019, abbiamo sollecitato Dipesh Chakrabarty
a riflettere sui temi di Provincializing Europe alla luce delle
trasformazioni intervenute in Europa e nel mondo nel corso degli ultimi
vent’anni
Computing the Cosmos and Us : Uncertain Models of Ecological Crisis
No full textSocieties are turning to algorithmic and computational models to tackle multiplying and intensifying ecological crises, from climate change to resource depletion and waste. The turn toward modeling aims to produce actionable knowledge at the limits of conventional epistemologies, scientific standards, and ethics. This chapter analyzes models that either gauge the thresholds of unsustainability (i.e., climate models) or prescribe pathways to sustainability (i.e., logistical models in support of the green economy). Through a discussion of proxies informed by STS and media theory, I explore the interplay of certainty/uncertainty in the modeling of socio-ecological realities that are prohibitory complex, unstable, and undecidable. My question is what kinds of political possibilities this interplay, and its engagement through global relations, open up, considered in terms of cosmopolitan and cosmopolitical dilemmas. A cosmopolitan lens highlights that modeling ecological crisis requires global coverage and involves collaboration at global scale. In turn, models enable a seemingly “total view” in support of collective intervention, much needed to safeguard human and nonhuman life. A cosmopolitical approach, however, considers the assumption of a single and common cosmos underpinning cosmopolitanism more often than not the problem rather than the remedy, and it points to the multiplicity of worldings underlying uncertainty. This chapter assesses and rethinks models as well as the engagement with the interplay of certainty/uncertainty by exploring paradoxical intersections of the cosmopolitan and cosmopolitical
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Climat et histoire.
No full textDipesh Chakrabarty. Dipesh Chakrabarty est un éminent historien, digne représentant des post-colonial studies et des subaltern studies. Il est devenu une figure majeure de la pensée de l’anthropocène (cf. cette vidéo), et cela essentiellement suite à son article : « The climate of history : Four theses », Critical Inquiry, vol.35, n°2, 2009, 197-222. L'article est consultable en anglais ou en français (traduction de Charlotte Nordmann). Le cas de Dipesh Chakrabarty semble celui d’un retournem..
Belatedness as Possibility Subaltern histories, once again
No full textEven though I will be discussing historiography, not art, in the main body of this essay, I have to acknowledge that the essay owes its title to the accident of an invitation I received recently from the noted historian of visual culture in South Asia, Professor Christopher Pinney, to speak at a conference on art history he had organized at the Northwestern University in Chicago in May 2008. The topic of belatedness was being discussed at the conference, and the invitation made me remember that my most recent encounter with the theme of belatedness was at an exhibition of Indian art held in Chicago in 2007
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