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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... example, the conviction that the relationships between the present and the past, the local and the global, the vernacular and the cosmopolitan, the postcolonial and the postmodern are much more intertwined and of longer duration than ...
... example, the conviction that the relationships between the present and the past, the local and the global, the vernacular and the cosmopolitan, the postcolonial and the postmodern are much more intertwined and of longer duration than ...
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... example, the experience of the sublime), and, crucially, the recognition of temporality itself (see Chapter 2). One of the characteristics of modernity as a period, then, is that it imagined it would bring into existence a particular ...
... example, the experience of the sublime), and, crucially, the recognition of temporality itself (see Chapter 2). One of the characteristics of modernity as a period, then, is that it imagined it would bring into existence a particular ...
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... example, about abortion. Religious and 'spiritual' master narratives have become more, rather than less, important. For reasons that I shall explain in Chapter 2, the instrumental and technocratic dimension of the project of modernity ...
... example, about abortion. Religious and 'spiritual' master narratives have become more, rather than less, important. For reasons that I shall explain in Chapter 2, the instrumental and technocratic dimension of the project of modernity ...
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... example, in a genealogy of the 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 ...
... example, in a genealogy of the 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 ...
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... examples of the cumulative, pragmatic, deliberative, polyglot, inter-subjective, structured- structurizing (if indeterminate) action and interchanges between human and material actors and actants: social structures such as the family ...
... examples of the cumulative, pragmatic, deliberative, polyglot, inter-subjective, structured- structurizing (if indeterminate) action and interchanges between human and material actors and actants: social structures such as the family ...
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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