Negotiating Capability and Diaspora A Philosophical Politics [Paperback]

Dr. Ashmita Khasnabish, the author of Negotiating Capability: A Philosophical Politics, seeks to develop an original answer to the daunting question: What must the individuals in the diaspora do to solve their cultural dislocations and the violations of their human dignity? In the process of addressing this question, she engages three classical approaches in Global moral and political philosophy. They are: Entitlement Theories, Capability Challenges, and Eastern Pragmatist Ontologies and Philosophical Politics. . . .Khasnabish . . . adds her own voice, which she describes as that of a Diasporic Asian feminist. It is from this distinct perspective that she articulates a rich synthesis of the resource of the West and East, as she engages in the moral and political project of enabling the diaspora to be capable of satisfying its existential rights and to negotiate capability and existence, reason and emotion. In the end Khasnabish addresses the daunting question with which this review began.In following Amartya Sen, Dr Khasnabish has her own ideas, and her book has something for readers from different academic disciplines in clarifying the experience of diasporic communities, and the construction of political and personal identity in a globalising world. An intriguing and challenging book.Leading on from her previous monographs, Ashmita Khasnabishs new volume, Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics, is another unusual enquiry into contemporary postcolonial thought and literature. By combining the philosophies of Eastern and Western thinkers, Khasnabish creates a syncretic paradigm that casts the work of such diverse writers as Toni Morrison, Amitav Ghosh, and Jhumpa Lahriri in a new light. This book is an original and imaginative engagement with contemporary postcolonial and feminist debates.Ashmita Khasnabishs latest work Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics is a bold attempt to examine the intellectual philosophiesl#d