Dipesh Chakrabarty’s keynote lecture at the December 2017 Millennium conference on ‘The Politics of Time in International Relations’.
Chakrabarty questions whether the presently dominant ideas about globalisation and global warming work with very different conceptions of the ‘globe’ that are both connected and yet opposed to each other. The discussion on globalisation may be seen as an extension of homocentric narratives of modernity that see humans as separate from the natural world. The global warming literature, on the other hand, has led to a serious renewal of critical calls to abandon the nature/culture distinction. In his lecture Professor Chakrabarty tracks some of the ethical difficulties of being modern at a time when collective human aspirations carry planetary implications. In the process, he brings into conversation some post-human and post-colonial perspectives on our time.
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DIPESH CHAKRABARTY is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, USA.
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