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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... institution of the social world (Castoriadis, 1987), conscious of the fractured or disjointed temporalities and signifying practices that make up the experiential reality of that world (see Chapter 3). Colonialism, of course, attempts ...
... institution of the social world (Castoriadis, 1987), conscious of the fractured or disjointed temporalities and signifying practices that make up the experiential reality of that world (see Chapter 3). Colonialism, of course, attempts ...
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... institutions' (Ricoeur, 1992: 330). The conceptual framework of occidentalism is circumscribed by the following propositions. First, the idea that the distinguishing feature of modernity is that it understands itself in the form of a ...
... institutions' (Ricoeur, 1992: 330). The conceptual framework of occidentalism is circumscribed by the following propositions. First, the idea that the distinguishing feature of modernity is that it understands itself in the form of a ...
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... institution of modernity throughout the world, through colonialism and in the form of modernization, has introduced this narrative of the subject that appears to have become hegemonic in the social and human sciences and in technologies ...
... institution of modernity throughout the world, through colonialism and in the form of modernization, has introduced this narrative of the subject that appears to have become hegemonic in the social and human sciences and in technologies ...
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... , practices of production of material life and the discourses that have been invented to describe and regulate them, the inventive and renewed institution of communities or socialities through 13 Rethinking the Postcolonial.
... , practices of production of material life and the discourses that have been invented to describe and regulate them, the inventive and renewed institution of communities or socialities through 13 Rethinking the Postcolonial.
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Towards Alternative Worlds Couze Venn. the inventive and renewed institution of communities or socialities through acting in common, in pursuing common goals, and institutions of all kinds that have gradually been put into place, as ...
Towards Alternative Worlds Couze Venn. the inventive and renewed institution of communities or socialities through acting in common, in pursuing common goals, and institutions of all kinds that have gradually been put into place, as ...
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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