Sharing a recent drawing of mine in HIMAL for a piece on Class Analysis: Whatever happened to class? by Vivek Chibber. It appears at the bottom of the article
>From the recent issue of HIMAL: http://www.himalmag.com/2008/april/cover_class.htm How times change! For the past two decades, class analysis has been in decline in Southasian studies, and at an accelerating pace. This is not in itself surprising, since it is symptomatic of Marxism's decline as an intellectual and political force more broadly, and the Marxist tradition has historically been the main source of class-related theory. What gives added urgency to the issue is the nature of the theories – and politics – that have gained prominence in its stead. On the right, it is the revival of free-market ideology and, more broadly, neoliberalism. On the left, it is the rise of post-structuralism and postcolonial theory, a tandem that will hereafter be referred to as PSPC. Indeed, the proponents of PSPC have rather boldly laid claim to the mantle of radical theory in the wake of Marxism's retreat. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Southasian studies. The larger piece may be seen at the link below. Click on All Sizes > Original Spelling errors in the drawing, Procellous Narrative 6: Drawing towards/from post-structuralist and postcolonial frames are intentional. http://www.flickr.com/photos/venantius/2346065314/ venantius