ABSTRACT
Chakrabarty argues that the process of the so-called “transition to capitalism” is in fact also a “process of translation of diverse life-worlds and conceptual horizons about being human into the categories of Enlightenment thought that inhere in the logic of capital.” (Chakrabarty 2000: 71) For instance, and of concern to this paper, diverse experiences are translated into economic terms like “private property rights,” “free trade,” “profit and money seeking” and “management” that are further translated into exclusion, privilege, accumulation, control and a linear logic of maximizing material gains.1
