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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... relay concept is still central in law and in the social sciences; we find it in psychological accounts of every aspect of human behaviour; in judgements about rights and responsibilities and culpabilities take it for granted; it can be ...
... relay concept is still central in law and in the social sciences; we find it in psychological accounts of every aspect of human behaviour; in judgements about rights and responsibilities and culpabilities take it for granted; it can be ...
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... relay in that conceptualization of the subject. The latter is the distinguishing mark of the difference from non-Western, non- modern forms of the subject; the dominant form has been positioned as the privileged model against which, in ...
... relay in that conceptualization of the subject. The latter is the distinguishing mark of the difference from non-Western, non- modern forms of the subject; the dominant form has been positioned as the privileged model against which, in ...
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... relays (Bishop and Phillips, 2002) between the economy, state planning and the military apparatus. Third, the gradual supplanting of the ethical goals inscribed in the ideals of radical Enlightenment thought by the instrumental ...
... relays (Bishop and Phillips, 2002) between the economy, state planning and the military apparatus. Third, the gradual supplanting of the ethical goals inscribed in the ideals of radical Enlightenment thought by the instrumental ...
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... relay and re-articulate the agonistic spaces of power. The conceptualization of the other as 'same but not quite', and the slippages in the colonial 'Manichaean aesthetics' (JanMohamed, 1986) whereby the presumed otherness of the other ...
... relay and re-articulate the agonistic spaces of power. The conceptualization of the other as 'same but not quite', and the slippages in the colonial 'Manichaean aesthetics' (JanMohamed, 1986) whereby the presumed otherness of the other ...
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... relay concepts in that process of co-articulation, and constructed their discursive coherence, a coherence that abides. I will return to the idea of modernity as a project, organized according to the logic of a linear temporality ...
... relay concepts in that process of co-articulation, and constructed their discursive coherence, a coherence that abides. I will return to the idea of modernity as a project, organized according to the logic of a linear temporality ...
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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