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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... element that has led me to look for ways of establishing at the analytical level clearer or more explicit links between post- colonial studies and cognate fields such as cultural studies, political economy, gender studies, the social ...
... element that has led me to look for ways of establishing at the analytical level clearer or more explicit links between post- colonial studies and cognate fields such as cultural studies, political economy, gender studies, the social ...
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... element of the system. One finds this world-view in religious doctrine, say, Christianity, just before the emergence of modernity from the sixteenth century when it had established a conceptual system for understanding both the universe ...
... element of the system. One finds this world-view in religious doctrine, say, Christianity, just before the emergence of modernity from the sixteenth century when it had established a conceptual system for understanding both the universe ...
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... element of the analytical framework shaping the book is the view that the situation noted at the beginning of this chapter is a development in keeping with the logic of occidentalism, perhaps even its completion. It follows that the ...
... element of the analytical framework shaping the book is the view that the situation noted at the beginning of this chapter is a development in keeping with the logic of occidentalism, perhaps even its completion. It follows that the ...
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... elements of a postcolonial political economy in Chapter 4. For instance, concerning the economy, it can be argued that it is the result of the functioning of assemblages - in the active and purposive combination of specific technologies ...
... elements of a postcolonial political economy in Chapter 4. For instance, concerning the economy, it can be argued that it is the result of the functioning of assemblages - in the active and purposive combination of specific technologies ...
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... elements, alterities, differences, than they consciously exclude' (ibid.: 15). Processes that are described using terms like diaspora, hybridity, transcul- turation, syncretism, creolization, mestizaje are not new; they have been at ...
... elements, alterities, differences, than they consciously exclude' (ibid.: 15). Processes that are described using terms like diaspora, hybridity, transcul- turation, syncretism, creolization, mestizaje are not new; they have been at ...
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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