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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... visible the peculiarities of modernity as a period, arguing that a genealogy shows that postcolonial thought must be attentive to both the taken-for-granted aspects of modernity buried in the minds of people everywhere - as in the ...
... visible the peculiarities of modernity as a period, arguing that a genealogy shows that postcolonial thought must be attentive to both the taken-for-granted aspects of modernity buried in the minds of people everywhere - as in the ...
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... visible the mechanisms at work in the making of this reality, including the task of showing the interrelations at the level of theory between postcolonial studies and that reality. Genealogy and critical phenomenology The concept of ...
... visible the mechanisms at work in the making of this reality, including the task of showing the interrelations at the level of theory between postcolonial studies and that reality. Genealogy and critical phenomenology The concept of ...
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... visible the borrowings and the dynamic transcultural interactions that have determined their development (Goonatilake, 1984; Harding, 1998); alternative approaches in the social sciences and humanities that emphasize complexity, co ...
... visible the borrowings and the dynamic transcultural interactions that have determined their development (Goonatilake, 1984; Harding, 1998); alternative approaches in the social sciences and humanities that emphasize complexity, co ...
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... visible elements that operated to try and constitute hegemony. The problem for the exercise of power is about authority, and thus about the means for countering a countervailing local discourse of authority. The standpoint of hegemony ...
... visible elements that operated to try and constitute hegemony. The problem for the exercise of power is about authority, and thus about the means for countering a countervailing local discourse of authority. The standpoint of hegemony ...
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... Introduction. The intention here is to retrace and make visible the history of anti-colonial struggles, much of it forgotten or neglected now, and the thinking that accompanied them, showing the 38 The Postcolonial Challenge.
... Introduction. The intention here is to retrace and make visible the history of anti-colonial struggles, much of it forgotten or neglected now, and the thinking that accompanied them, showing the 38 The Postcolonial Challenge.
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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