Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • John Chalcraft, Yaseen Noorani

      Pages 1-19

3. The State and Politics: Nationalism and Revolution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Hegemony, Counterhegemony and the Mexican Revolution

      • Alan Knight

      Pages 23-48

   3. The Fetishism of Identity: Empire, Nation and the Politics of Subjectivity in Algeria

      • James McDougall

      Pages 49-71

4. Intellectual Formations: Authority and Opposition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Redefining Resistance: Counterhegemony, the Repressive Hypothesis and the Case of Arabic Modernism

      • Yaseen Noorani

      Pages 75-99

   3. Hegemony and Liberation: Mao Zedong and Zou Taofen in Early Twentieth-century China

      • Rana Mitter

      Pages 100-114

   4. The Road through Africa: Imperial Nationalism and Diasporic Racial Consciousness in Post-slavery Barbados

      • Melanie Newton

      Pages 115-138

5. Counterculture: Normative Tension and Ambiguity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Reading, Hegemony and Counterhegemony in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic

      • Benjamin C. Fortna

      Pages 141-154

   3. Celebratory Ramadan and Hyperpiety in a Mexican Standoff: Counterhegemony in the Crossfire

      • Walter Armbrust

      Pages 155-176

6. Popular Struggle: Manoeuvre and Contestation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Counterhegemonic Effects: Weighing, Measuring, Petitions and Bureaucracy in Nineteenth-century Egypt

      • John Chalcraft

      Pages 179-203

   3. Hegemony from Below: Print Workers, the State and the Communist Party in Peru, 1920–40

      • Paulo Drinot

      Pages 204-227

   4. The Politics of Institutional Subversion: Organized Labour and Resistance in Zambia

      • Adrienne LeBas

      Pages 228-251

   5. How Do Activists Act? Conceiving Counterhegemony in Durban

      • Sharad Chari

      Pages 252-274

7. Back Matter

   Pages 275-289

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This volume offers an unusual, interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars working on the major regions of the global South. The authors probe important episodes of resistance in the colony and postcolony for the light they shed on the vexed notion of counterhegemony, enriching our notion of resistance and pointing to new directions for research.

• communism
• identity
• Institution
• Nation
• nationalism
• politics
• resistance
• revolution

• Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK

  John Chalcraft

• Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, USA

  Yaseen Noorani

WALTER ARMBRUST Albert Hourani Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford, UK JOHN CHALCRAFT Lecturer in the History and Politics of Empire / Imperialism, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK SHARAD CHARI Lecturer in Human Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK PAULO DRINOT Lecturer in History, University of Manchester, UK BENJAMIN FORTNA Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK ALAN KNIGHT Professor of the History of Latin America, Oxford University, UK ADRIENNE LEBAS Assistant Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Michigan State University, USA and Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK JAMES MCDOUGALL Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Princeton University, USA RANA MITTER University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China, the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK MELANIE NEWTON Assistant Professor of History, the University of Toronto, Canada YASEEN NOORANI Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, USA

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