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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... analyses of everyday life, popular culture, and new intellectual movements. EDITOR: Mike Featherstone, Nottingham Trent University SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Roy Boyne, University of Durham Mike Hep worth, University of Aberdeen Scott Lash ...
... analyses of everyday life, popular culture, and new intellectual movements. EDITOR: Mike Featherstone, Nottingham Trent University SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Roy Boyne, University of Durham Mike Hep worth, University of Aberdeen Scott Lash ...
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... analysis of postcoloniality. As Fisher and Ponniah put it: Neoliberal globalization is not simply economic domination of the world but also the imposition of a monolithic thought that consolidates vertical forms of difference and ...
... analysis of postcoloniality. As Fisher and Ponniah put it: Neoliberal globalization is not simply economic domination of the world but also the imposition of a monolithic thought that consolidates vertical forms of difference and ...
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... analysis of double consciousness and Fanon's (1967) explorations of the splittings of identity arising from the othering of the colonized, Mbembe argues that the scene upon which was played out the tension between universalism and ...
... analysis of double consciousness and Fanon's (1967) explorations of the splittings of identity arising from the othering of the colonized, Mbembe argues that the scene upon which was played out the tension between universalism and ...
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... analysis of modernity, identity and political economy that I go on to develop. The standpoint it constructs has been directed in this book into an interrogation of modernity and modernization from the point of view of its genealogy and ...
... analysis of modernity, identity and political economy that I go on to develop. The standpoint it constructs has been directed in this book into an interrogation of modernity and modernization from the point of view of its genealogy and ...
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... analysis of postcoloniality can be understood by reference to what I have called occidentalism (Venn, 1993, 2000). I propose this term to designate the correlation of a conceptual space, a global, world- transforming project and a world ...
... analysis of postcoloniality can be understood by reference to what I have called occidentalism (Venn, 1993, 2000). I propose this term to designate the correlation of a conceptual space, a global, world- transforming project and a world ...
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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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