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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... strategies towards the homogenization and privileging of a centre or an origin or a sovereignty or a world-view which is at the heart of every form of colonization or subjugation, past and existing. In this book colonialism is ...
... strategies towards the homogenization and privileging of a centre or an origin or a sovereignty or a world-view which is at the heart of every form of colonization or subjugation, past and existing. In this book colonialism is ...
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... strategic calculations of disciplinary forces. In these circumstances one may well ask: where and what is the postcolonial? Once, in the days of the 'cold war', and after the Bandung Conference in 1955 of 'non-aligned', 'tri-continental ...
... strategic calculations of disciplinary forces. In these circumstances one may well ask: where and what is the postcolonial? Once, in the days of the 'cold war', and after the Bandung Conference in 1955 of 'non-aligned', 'tri-continental ...
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... strategic and instrumental calculation and decision-making, operating at the level of economic, technological, administrative and regulative thought, establishing a kind of mindset: ubiquitous, powerful, unnoticed. This is not simply ...
... strategic and instrumental calculation and decision-making, operating at the level of economic, technological, administrative and regulative thought, establishing a kind of mindset: ubiquitous, powerful, unnoticed. This is not simply ...
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... strategic port and regulated trade. The lived dimension of these changes is the dimension in which the intertwining of modernity, capitalism, colonialism in the midst of vernacular cultures is most concretely accomplished, inscribed in ...
... strategic port and regulated trade. The lived dimension of these changes is the dimension in which the intertwining of modernity, capitalism, colonialism in the midst of vernacular cultures is most concretely accomplished, inscribed in ...
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... strategies and shaped the political action of indigenous groups. The point of view of the interests of the elite and the rulers is insufficient in accounting for the realities of resistance and the process of mobilization of insurgency ...
... strategies and shaped the political action of indigenous groups. The point of view of the interests of the elite and the rulers is insufficient in accounting for the realities of resistance and the process of mobilization of insurgency ...
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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