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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... recognition that new forms of colonization are at work in transforming the world today, more insidious and totalizing than previous forms. It intervenes in this moment of danger at the theoretical and methodological levels ...
... recognition that new forms of colonization are at work in transforming the world today, more insidious and totalizing than previous forms. It intervenes in this moment of danger at the theoretical and methodological levels ...
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... recognition of the historical dimension in these struggles and their theorizations, and the recognition of the co-existing 'multiple temporalities' - the linear, fast time of modernity and the slower recurrent time of 'tradition', and ...
... recognition of the historical dimension in these struggles and their theorizations, and the recognition of the co-existing 'multiple temporalities' - the linear, fast time of modernity and the slower recurrent time of 'tradition', and ...
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... recognition of finitude and death, the experience of suffering, loss, and fragility, the recognition of a lim- inal or spiritual dimension to the experiential that exceeds representation (for example, the experience of the sublime), and ...
... recognition of finitude and death, the experience of suffering, loss, and fragility, the recognition of a lim- inal or spiritual dimension to the experiential that exceeds representation (for example, the experience of the sublime), and ...
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... recognition of the historicity of the present, that is, the sense that the present inscribes and is conditioned by the historical past in the very material reality of the everyday world and in the accretion of meanings attaching to its ...
... recognition of the historicity of the present, that is, the sense that the present inscribes and is conditioned by the historical past in the very material reality of the everyday world and in the accretion of meanings attaching to its ...
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... recognition enables one to anchor the idea of the temporality and historicity of the subject in the existential flux of being-in-the-world and being-with, and to give a sense of the material conditions and practical limits within which ...
... recognition enables one to anchor the idea of the temporality and historicity of the subject in the existential flux of being-in-the-world and being-with, and to give a sense of the material conditions and practical limits within which ...
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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