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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... liberal - and the simultaneous archaic and postmodern terrors they inflict. Aligned against such forces, one finds ... liberalism and its project of establishing the sovereignty, if not hegemony of a postmodern totalizing form of ...
... liberal - and the simultaneous archaic and postmodern terrors they inflict. Aligned against such forces, one finds ... liberalism and its project of establishing the sovereignty, if not hegemony of a postmodern totalizing form of ...
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... liberal thinkers like Nussbaum and Sen have been making (see Chapter 4) and, it goes without saying, it has become essentialized in the foundation of neo-liberalism. There is no doubt that the task of making sense of this complex set of ...
... liberal thinkers like Nussbaum and Sen have been making (see Chapter 4) and, it goes without saying, it has become essentialized in the foundation of neo-liberalism. There is no doubt that the task of making sense of this complex set of ...
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... liberal version of the project of modernity claims that the history of 'humanity' is a process of advancement directed by the agency of the rational, self-sufficient, autonomous subject and the instrumentality of the rational sciences ...
... liberal version of the project of modernity claims that the history of 'humanity' is a process of advancement directed by the agency of the rational, self-sufficient, autonomous subject and the instrumentality of the rational sciences ...
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... liberal economic standpoint. Genealogies are not neutral: as histories of the present, they construct a specific gaze, thus offering a specific orientation on the past and the future. The application of genealogy to the emergence of ...
... liberal economic standpoint. Genealogies are not neutral: as histories of the present, they construct a specific gaze, thus offering a specific orientation on the past and the future. The application of genealogy to the emergence of ...
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... liberal political economy. My argument is that with corporate capitalism, economic strategy has become militarized; elements and sectors of the economy operate as hinges and relays (Bishop and Phillips, 2002) between the economy, state ...
... liberal political economy. My argument is that with corporate capitalism, economic strategy has become militarized; elements and sectors of the economy operate as hinges and relays (Bishop and Phillips, 2002) between the economy, state ...
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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