REVELATIONS UPON REVELATION After Shocks, Afterthoughts

1 January 2001

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

Vol. 3 (1) , 100-126
https://doi.org/10.1080/13698010020026958

Abstract

This essay is written in answer to the commentaries included in the special issue of Interventions on Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II (RRII) . More than simply reply to critical points raised about the book, however, it seeks to make a series of more general observations and arguments about colonialism and postcoloniality, power and agency, modernity and governmentality, the state, the practice of ethnography and the writing of history.

Keywords

COLONIALISM
ETHNOGRAPHY
GOVERNMENTALITY
MODERNITY
POSTCOLONIALITY
SOUTH AFRICA

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
Published by University of Chicago Press ,1991
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance
Published by University of Chicago Press ,1985