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Globalizing Dissent Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com 20. The Nature of Capital 30. The Intellectual as Stranger Marx after Foucault Studies in Spokespersonship Richard Marsden Dick Pels 21. The Age of Chance 31. Hermeneutic Dialogue and Gambling in Western Culture Social Science Gerda Reith A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas 22. Refl exive Historical Sociology Austin Harrington Arpad Szakolczai 32. Methodological Individualism 23. Durkheim and Representations Background, History and Meaning Edited by W. S. F. Pickering Lars Udehn 24. The Social and Political Thought 33. John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Noam Chomsky of Expression Alison Edgley The Genesis of a Theory K.C. O’Rourke 25. Hayek’s Liberalism and Its Origins His Idea of Spontaneous Order and 34. The Politics of Atrocity and the Scottish Enlightenment Reconciliation Christina Petsoulas From Terror to Trauma Michael Humphrey 26. Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge 35. Marx and Wittgenstein Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart Knowledge, Morality, Politics Edited by Gavin Kitching and 27. Living with Markets Nigel Pleasants Jeremy Shearmur 36. The Genesis of Modernity 28. Durkheim’s Suicide Arpad Szakolczai A Century of Research and Debate Edited by W.S.F. Pickering and 37. Ignorance and Liberty Geoffrey Walford Lorenzo Infantino 29. Post-Marxism 38. Deleuze, Marx and Politics An Intellectual History Nicholas Thoburn Stuart Sim 39. The Structure of Social Theory 50. The Sociology of Elites Anthony King Michael Hartmann 40. Adorno, Habermas and the 51. Deconstructing Habermas Search for a Rational Society Lasse Thomassen Deborah Cook 52. Young Citizens and New Media 41. Tocqueville’s Moral and Political Learning for Democractic Participation Thought Edited by Peter Dahlgren New Liberalism M.R.R. Ossewaarde 53. Gambling, Freedom and Democracy 42. Adam Smith’s Political Peter Adams Philosophy The Invisible Hand and 54. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation Spontaneous Order in Modern Social Science Craig Smith Amos Morris-Reich 43. Social and Political Ideas of 55. Frankfurt School Perspectives Mahatma Gandi on Globalization, Democracy, and Bidyut Chakrabarty the Law William E. Scheuerman 44. Counter-Enlightenments From the Eighteenth Century to 56. Hegemony the Present Studies in Consensus and Coercion Graeme Garrard Edited by Richard Howson and Kylie Smith 45. The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell 57. Governmentality, Biopower, and A Reassessment Everyday Life Stephen Ingle Majia Holmer Nadesan 46. Habermas 58. Sustainability and Security Rescuing the Public Sphere within Liberal Societies Pauline Johnson Learning to Live with the Future Edited by Stephen Gough and 47. The Politics and Philosophy of Andrew Stables Michael Oakeshott Stuart Isaacs 59. Globalizing Dissent Essays on Arundhati Roy 48. Pareto and Political Theory Edited by Ranjan Ghosh & Joseph Femia Antonia Navarro-Tejero 49. German Political Philosophy The Metaphysics of Law Chris Thornhill Globalizing Dissent Essays on Arundhati Roy Edited by Ranjan Ghosh & Antonia Navarro-Tejero New York London First published 2009 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2009 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereaf- ter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trade- marks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Globalizing dissent : essays on Arundhati Roy / edited by Ranjan Ghosh & Antonia Navarro-Tejero. p. cm. — (Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 60) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Roy, Arundhati—Criticism and interpretation. I. Ghosh, Ranjan. II. Navarro Tejero, Antonia. PR9499.3.R59Z58 2009 809.3—dc22 2008026704 ISBN 0-203-88508-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-99559-0 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-88508-2 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-99559-7 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-88508-6 (ebk) Ranjan Ghosh’s dedication: To all the small things, for which we need no God Antonia Navarro-Tejero’s dedication: For Andrés, Nardi, and their twins, David and Sergio Contents Acknowledgments xi Prologue xiii ANTONIA NAVARRO-TEJERO PART I The Writer, the Artist 1 The (In)fusion of Sociology and Literary Fantasy: Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Ulrich Beck, and the Reinvention of Politics 3 JESSE T. AIRAUDI 2 Where “Tomorrow”?: The God of Small Things as Derridean Ghost Story 25 CARA CILANO 3 In-Between and Elsewhere: Liminality in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 39 ANNA FROULA 4 Beyond “Anticommunism”: The Progressive Politics of The God of Small Things 47 PRANAV JANI 5 The History House: The Magic of Contained Space in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 71 SARA UPSTONE

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