The Postcolonial Challenge: Towards Alternative WorldsSAGE, 24.01.2006 - 224 Seiten An outstanding contribution to our understanding of postcolonial theory and its engagement with significant changes within the contemporary world. Couze Venn forces us to rethink the very parameters of the post-colonial and suggests a new political economy for post-modern times. This critical engagement opens up the possibility to reimagine the world from its current narrow European strictures to a world full of alternative possibilities and modernities... This is a timely and ground breaking book that contributes to a much needed reconceptualisation of the postcolony. - Professor Pal Ahluwalia, Goldsmiths, University of London What is postcolonial studies? What are its achievements, strengths and weaknesses? This ground breaking book offers an essential guide to one of the most important issues of our time, with special emphasis on neo-liberalism within world poverty and the ′third world′. It clarifies:
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... World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, UN bodies and trade associations have dispelled the illusion of independence or autonomy. Furthermore, differences at the local level have become open to transnational and transregional ...
... World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, UN bodies and trade associations have dispelled the illusion of independence or autonomy. Furthermore, differences at the local level have become open to transnational and transregional ...
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... World Bank or Bollywood that would differ according to, say, a feminist instead of a liberal economic standpoint. Genealogies are not neutral: as histories of the present, they construct a specific gaze, thus offering a specific ...
... World Bank or Bollywood that would differ according to, say, a feminist instead of a liberal economic standpoint. Genealogies are not neutral: as histories of the present, they construct a specific gaze, thus offering a specific ...
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... World Social Forum, the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and Greenpeace, accounts of the activities of NGOs like the World Bank, the World Health Organization, international apparatuses of global governance like the World Trade ...
... World Social Forum, the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and Greenpeace, accounts of the activities of NGOs like the World Bank, the World Health Organization, international apparatuses of global governance like the World Trade ...
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Question of identity and agency | 77 |
Towards a postcolonial political economy | 122 |
Glossary | 175 |
Bibliography | 198 |
Index | 211 |
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