Emancipations, Modern and Postmodern

This outstanding collection of essays analyzes emancipation as a social and political phenomenon and seeks to define it in a way that satisfies its growing application. Nederveen Pieterse suggests that the term emancipation is increasingly used in recent years to reflect the limitations of class analysis in the face of collective actions that do not signify class; he proposes that it might also reflect the limitations of postmodern discourse which tend to blur different types of collective action. The book focuses on marxism and postmarxism, democracy and social movements, feminism, and development theory; it portrays emancipation as a concept which can embrace old and new social movements, liberation, participation, and empowerment. Academics and graduate students in social theory, political theory, women's studies, and development studies will turn to Emancipations, Modern and Postmodern time and time again.Nederveen Pieterse, Jan is the author of 'Emancipations, Modern and Postmodern' with ISBN 9780803987777 and ISBN 0803987773.