Vasant Kaiwar
| Title: | Visiting Assistant Professor and Editor |
| Office Location: | 311 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-5439 |
| Email Address: | vkaiwar@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- Tuesday 3-4 p.m.
Thursday 6-7 p.m.
And by appointment
Education
- PhD University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
- C Phil University of California, Los Angeles, 1982
- MA University of California, Los Angeles, 1980
- BA University of Oxford, England, 1978
Current Projects
Mapping Difference: Coordinates of Knowledge Production and Identity Politics, 18-20th centuries., • Reconstructing Orientalism: From the Oriental Renaissance to Postcolonial Theory.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- International Programme of Advanced Studies, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, December, 2006
- HISTORY 75.01, TOPICS THIRD WORLD/WEST
Synopsis
- Carr 240, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM
- HISTORY 105S.07, EMPIRES IN HST. PERSPECTIVE
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 216, W 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
Recent Publications
Papers Published- V. Kaiwar. "Colonialism, difference and exoticism in the formation of the postcolonial metanarrative." Littératures, Histoire des Idées, Images, Sociétés du Monde Anglophone, Université de Caen. Pierre Guerlain and Thierry Madjid Labica (eds.), Perspectives transatlantiques sur les empires, Colloque organisé a l’université de Paris, X, Nanterre, Publications Paris X. (2007). [abs]
- "“Silences in Postcolonial Thought: The Case of Provincializing Europe,”." Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XL:No 34 (August, 2005): 3732-3738.
- V. Kaiwar. "Philosophy and Politics in the Hind Swaraj of Mohandas Gandhi." SAMAJ (South Asian Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Paris). (2006). [abs]
- ""Embracing Difference: Postcolonial Theory and the Metanarrative of Capital,”." Historical Materialism (2005).
- with Sucheta Mazumdar. ""The Coordinates of Orientalism"." ContreTemps (2005).