Jan nederveen pieterse biography of williams
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Hey Europe, What about Structural Adjustment?
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
The EU and the tremannagrupp now apply structural adjustment to Greece, a policy with a record of disaster, ‘lost decades’ in Africa and Latin amerika and worsening the Asian crisis of the s. The Berlin/Brussels consensus has come in the place of the Washington Consensus.
The IMF and World finansinstitut abandoned structural adjustment programs (SAP) because of massive failure and resistance. SAP was never a development program but a disciplinary regime used by creditors and hegemons. After the US opted for stimulus, not austerity. Against economic advice Germany, and the EU, press on with austerity.
Germany proclaims the motto of Ordo-liberalism—Follow the rules; Merkel’s meddelande is ‘the EU fryst vatten based on rules’. One of the rules fryst vatten that debtors must pay. Along with this positon comes technocracy, self-righteousness and moral binarism—the rules über alles and one inom
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Jan Nederveen Pieterse
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The critique of Eurocentrism has gone through several rounds. The first round was primarily a critique of Orientalism. Edward Said and Martin Bernal, among others, focused on cultural bias and racism in Eurocentric history. Others addressed Eurocentric biases in development thinking (Samir Amin, Paul Bairoch, Stavrianos) and historiography (Eric Wolf, James Blaut, Jack Goody).
Subaltern Studies made further contributions revisioning history from the point of view of the global South. A further strand, global history, generated critical historical studies that document the significance of, in particular, Asia and the in the making of the global economy. Janet Abu-Lughod focused on the Middle East, Marshall Hodgson on the world of Islam, K. N. Chauduri on South Asia, André Gunder Frank on East and South Asia, Kenneth Pomeranz, Robert Temple and Bin Wong on • "History, philosophy, a whole sweep of ideas, come together in Empire and Emancipation in an analysis that both illuminates and provokes"A SivanandanMarxist perspectives equate imperialism with capitalism. Preoccupation with the economics of empire over the last century has obscured the politics of empire. While there are many regional or period studies on the subject of emanicipation, they lack the wide-angled approach necessary for a global understanding of the forces at Empire and Emancipation Jan Nederveen Pieterse breaks with traditional approaches to imperialism to present a more balanced view of history, one that examines the logic of liberation as well as the logic of imperialism. As the author points out in his interoduction, 'We appear to know more and to think more about domination than about liberation. Does this indicate that in our general perception history is chiefly made from above?' He identifies Empire & Emancipation: Power and Liberation on a World Scale