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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... issues that are addressed in the book, and I have the following to thank: Roger Bromley, Steve Brown, Elizabeth Burrell, Sokho Choe, Neal Curtis, Mike Featherstone, Anders Hog Hansen, Richard Johnson, Kenichi Kawasaki, Gulshan Khan ...
... issues that are addressed in the book, and I have the following to thank: Roger Bromley, Steve Brown, Elizabeth Burrell, Sokho Choe, Neal Curtis, Mike Featherstone, Anders Hog Hansen, Richard Johnson, Kenichi Kawasaki, Gulshan Khan ...
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... issues of modernization and identity to the problem of establishing a political economy of postmodern times that could open up new grounds for imagining alternative worlds. In doing so, it develops a critical postcolonial standpoint ...
... issues of modernization and identity to the problem of establishing a political economy of postmodern times that could open up new grounds for imagining alternative worlds. In doing so, it develops a critical postcolonial standpoint ...
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... issues that have surfaced time and again in the history of emancipatory struggles. Mbembe (2001), addressing the problem from the point of view of postcolonial theory, highlights the inadequacy of two The Postcolonial Challenge.
... issues that have surfaced time and again in the history of emancipatory struggles. Mbembe (2001), addressing the problem from the point of view of postcolonial theory, highlights the inadequacy of two The Postcolonial Challenge.
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... issues to do with the when, what, where, which and whose of postcoloniality (see Childs and Williams, 1997; Stuart Hall, 1996); they point to the political and theoretical stakes fought out through these debates. They make it ...
... issues to do with the when, what, where, which and whose of postcoloniality (see Childs and Williams, 1997; Stuart Hall, 1996); they point to the political and theoretical stakes fought out through these debates. They make it ...
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... issues of universality, difference, plurality, emancipatory narratives, and in the background the underlying ethical question of what it means 'to live well with and for others in just institutions' (Ricoeur, 1992: 330). The conceptual ...
... issues of universality, difference, plurality, emancipatory narratives, and in the background the underlying ethical question of what it means 'to live well with and for others in just institutions' (Ricoeur, 1992: 330). The conceptual ...
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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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