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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... in altered forms, through mutations in local circumstances, and through different apparatuses, to constitute what Mbembe (2001) has called the postcolony. The latter concept, though applying Rethinking the Postcolonial.
... in altered forms, through mutations in local circumstances, and through different apparatuses, to constitute what Mbembe (2001) has called the postcolony. The latter concept, though applying Rethinking the Postcolonial.
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... mutation of the form of 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 ...
... mutation of the form of 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 ...
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... mutations and its material effects. Genealogy is used in Foucault to counter the idea of continuities in history that are supposed to be stable and to follow logical paths of development from some clear origin, as in the conventional ...
... mutations and its material effects. Genealogy is used in Foucault to counter the idea of continuities in history that are supposed to be stable and to follow logical paths of development from some clear origin, as in the conventional ...
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... mutation and transmutation of cultures from time immemorial (see Walsh, 2003). The restless movement of peoples and cultures is more ... mutations and advancements that occurred and that have functioned as 18 The Postcolonial Challenge.
... mutation and transmutation of cultures from time immemorial (see Walsh, 2003). The restless movement of peoples and cultures is more ... mutations and advancements that occurred and that have functioned as 18 The Postcolonial Challenge.
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... mutations in religions, whether concerning the Semitic or Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity - or the variation in Buddhism in its translations from India to other regions such as Sri Lanka, China, Korea and Japan. In ...
... mutations in religions, whether concerning the Semitic or Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity - or the variation in Buddhism in its translations from India to other regions such as Sri Lanka, China, Korea and Japan. In ...
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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