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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... genealogy and its constitutive relation with capitalism and colonialism (Chapter 2), a complex I have called occidentalism (Venn, 2000, see below), and the analysis of postcolonial identity from the point of view of the imaginary ...
... genealogy and its constitutive relation with capitalism and colonialism (Chapter 2), a complex I have called occidentalism (Venn, 2000, see below), and the analysis of postcolonial identity from the point of view of the imaginary ...
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... genealogy and critical phenomenology; (3) subjectivity, diaspora and creolization; and (4) disciplinary societies and militarism. They are combined on the basis of a methodological assemblage that I elaborate below. Occidentalism The ...
... genealogy and critical phenomenology; (3) subjectivity, diaspora and creolization; and (4) disciplinary societies and militarism. They are combined on the basis of a methodological assemblage that I elaborate below. Occidentalism The ...
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... genealogy (see below) of these effects passes through the reconstruction of the world-view framed by occidentalism and the ... Genealogy and critical phenomenology The concept of genealogy is used 11 Rethinking the Postcolonial.
... genealogy (see below) of these effects passes through the reconstruction of the world-view framed by occidentalism and the ... Genealogy and critical phenomenology The concept of genealogy is used 11 Rethinking the Postcolonial.
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Towards Alternative Worlds Couze Venn. Genealogy and critical phenomenology The concept of genealogy is used in this book to indicate the recognition of the historicity of the present, that is, the sense that the present inscribes and is ...
Towards Alternative Worlds Couze Venn. Genealogy and critical phenomenology The concept of genealogy is used in this book to indicate the recognition of the historicity of the present, that is, the sense that the present inscribes and is ...
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... genealogy supplements it with approaches developed within the social studies of the technosciences and their application to the analysis of practices of constitution of the social. The main components are: in addition to the ...
... genealogy supplements it with approaches developed within the social studies of the technosciences and their application to the analysis of practices of constitution of the social. The main components are: in addition to the ...
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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