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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... governance and sovereignty that operated in colonial conditions into a form of commandment that now rules on the basis largely of the violent production of insecurity and scarcity. It is crucial to point out, in relation to this history ...
... governance and sovereignty that operated in colonial conditions into a form of commandment that now rules on the basis largely of the violent production of insecurity and scarcity. It is crucial to point out, in relation to this history ...
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... governance that takes the individual to be the primary focus of all its regulatory and disciplinary machinery; it reappears in the form of the ego-centric ideology sustaining consumer culture; it lives on in the efforts to redraw the ...
... governance that takes the individual to be the primary focus of all its regulatory and disciplinary machinery; it reappears in the form of the ego-centric ideology sustaining consumer culture; it lives on in the efforts to redraw the ...
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... governance inside these countries had also been adapted to suit the administrative and regulative system of the imperial states. They also share the fact that they have all had to fight for independence, with consequences for the ...
... governance inside these countries had also been adapted to suit the administrative and regulative system of the imperial states. They also share the fact that they have all had to fight for independence, with consequences for the ...
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... at once - in all existing societies, altering in the process relations of power affecting the economy and gender relations, attitudes to the environment, forms of governance, ways of being in all cultures. 34 The Postcolonial Challenge.
... at once - in all existing societies, altering in the process relations of power affecting the economy and gender relations, attitudes to the environment, forms of governance, ways of being in all cultures. 34 The Postcolonial Challenge.
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Towards Alternative Worlds Couze Venn. environment, forms of governance, ways of being in all cultures. A good deal of writing about the postcolonial supports this view that critical thought must target all forms of oppression and ...
Towards Alternative Worlds Couze Venn. environment, forms of governance, ways of being in all cultures. A good deal of writing about the postcolonial supports this view that critical thought must target all forms of oppression and ...
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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