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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... science and the humanities. Building on the heritage of classical social theory, the book series examines ways in which this tradition has been reshaped by a new generation of theorists. It also publishes theoretically informed analyses ...
... science and the humanities. Building on the heritage of classical social theory, the book series examines ways in which this tradition has been reshaped by a new generation of theorists. It also publishes theoretically informed analyses ...
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... science and technology and in critical phenomenology in order to interrogate the material cultures and the complex character ... sciences. In challenging established boundaries, disciplinary or otherwise, and in seeking to overcome the ...
... science and technology and in critical phenomenology in order to interrogate the material cultures and the complex character ... sciences. In challenging established boundaries, disciplinary or otherwise, and in seeking to overcome the ...
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... science and technology - inscribed in the concept and in the process of modernization, as well as the unexamined ... sciences; we find it in psychological accounts of every aspect of human behaviour; in judgements about rights and ...
... science and technology - inscribed in the concept and in the process of modernization, as well as the unexamined ... sciences; we find it in psychological accounts of every aspect of human behaviour; in judgements about rights and ...
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... sciences and in technologies of formation of subjects, though it usually competes with religious and 'traditional' narratives when it comes to the reality of how people actually live their lives. The development of such a view of ...
... sciences and in technologies of formation of subjects, though it usually competes with religious and 'traditional' narratives when it comes to the reality of how people actually live their lives. The development of such a view of ...
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... sciences. This radical difference in foundation marks out modernity from all other narratives that address the key or 'big' questions about the meaning of human existence. I should point out here that the force of religious or spiritual ...
... sciences. This radical difference in foundation marks out modernity from all other narratives that address the key or 'big' questions about the meaning of human existence. I should point out here that the force of religious or spiritual ...
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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