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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... apparatuses that constitute the plural lifeworlds of today. The re-orientation in approach is, of course, sustained by the vocabulary and lessons that post- colonial studies has already established in its critical engagement with ...
... apparatuses that constitute the plural lifeworlds of today. The re-orientation in approach is, of course, sustained by the vocabulary and lessons that post- colonial studies has already established in its critical engagement with ...
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... , often in altered forms, through mutations in local circumstances, and through different apparatuses, to constitute what Mbembe (2001) has called the postcolony. The latter concept, though applying Rethinking the Postcolonial.
... , often in altered forms, through mutations in local circumstances, and through different apparatuses, to constitute what Mbembe (2001) has called the postcolony. The latter concept, though applying Rethinking the Postcolonial.
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... apparatus is sketched in the methodological section below, and put to work in the postcolonial analysis of modernity, identity and political economy that I go on to develop. The standpoint it constructs has been directed in this book ...
... apparatus is sketched in the methodological section below, and put to work in the postcolonial analysis of modernity, identity and political economy that I go on to develop. The standpoint it constructs has been directed in this book ...
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... apparatuses, such as poststructuralism and Marxism, that are deployed in the field; they help to make sense of the debates and disputes that have enlivened postcolonial studies, for instance, regarding issues to do with the when, what ...
... apparatuses, such as poststructuralism and Marxism, that are deployed in the field; they help to make sense of the debates and disputes that have enlivened postcolonial studies, for instance, regarding issues to do with the when, what ...
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... apparatuses that were pragmatically put into place to constitute the material world of modernity and modern forms of sociality. A central part of the postcolonial standpoint I am proposing is the claim that the effects of these ...
... apparatuses that were pragmatically put into place to constitute the material world of modernity and modern forms of sociality. A central part of the postcolonial standpoint I am proposing is the claim that the effects of these ...
Inhalt
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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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