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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... transforming the world today, more insidious and totalizing than previous forms. It intervenes in this moment of danger at the theoretical and methodological levels, interrogating the present conjuncture through a reconceptualization of ...
... transforming the world today, more insidious and totalizing than previous forms. It intervenes in this moment of danger at the theoretical and methodological levels, interrogating the present conjuncture through a reconceptualization of ...
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... transforming project and a world order. It is the result of the co-articulation of these three developments that together have instituted the world as it exists today, namely, the emergence of a technocratic modernity as dominant at the ...
... transforming project and a world order. It is the result of the co-articulation of these three developments that together have instituted the world as it exists today, namely, the emergence of a technocratic modernity as dominant at the ...
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... transformation of society towards an ideal of sociality to be realized, guided by master narratives that function as the ultimate foundation legitimating the project (Lyotard, [1976] 1984). It is important to point out that other ...
... transformation of society towards an ideal of sociality to be realized, guided by master narratives that function as the ultimate foundation legitimating the project (Lyotard, [1976] 1984). It is important to point out that other ...
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... transformations that mark the history of the present. One may think that this coincidence is purely accidental. However, their co-emergence has affected the history of all three elements to such an extent that it is difficult to ...
... transformations that mark the history of the present. One may think that this coincidence is purely accidental. However, their co-emergence has affected the history of all three elements to such an extent that it is difficult to ...
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... transforming the lived experience of time and space; it included the emergence of a new public culture in places such as clubs, libraries, educational institutions and public archives of all kinds - museums, zoos, collections; the ...
... transforming the lived experience of time and space; it included the emergence of a new public culture in places such as clubs, libraries, educational institutions and public archives of all kinds - museums, zoos, collections; the ...
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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