Binding: Paperback
Description: Postcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced - level students and researchers the book is a lively stimulating and relevant introduction to postcolonial geography that elaborates on the critical interventions in social cultural and political life this important subfield is poised to make. The book is structured around three intersecting parts Spaces Identity'/hybridity Knowledge that broadly follow the trajectory of postcolonial studies since the late 1970s. It comprises ten main chapters each of which is situated at the intersections of postcolonialism and critical human geography. In doing so Postcolonialism develops three key arguments. First that postcolonialism is best conceived as an intellectually creative and practical set of methodologies or approaches for critically engaging existing manifestations of power and exclusion in everyday life and in taken - as - given spaces. Second that postcolonialism is at its core concerned with the politics of representation both in terms of how people and space are represented but also the politics surrounding who is able to represent themselves and on what/whose terms. Third the book argues that postcolonialism itself is an inherently geographical intellectual enterprise despite its origins in literary theory. In developing these arguments and addressing a series of relevant and international case studies and examples throughout Postcolonialism not only demonstrates the importance of postcolonial theory to the contemporary critical geographical imagination. It also argues that geographers have much to offer to continued theorizations and workings of postcolonial theory politics and intellectual debates going forward. This is a book that brings critical analyses of the continued and omnipresent legacies of colonialism and imperialism to the heart of human geography but also one that returns an avowedly critical geographical disposition to the core of interdisciplinary postcolonial studies.
Title: Postcolonialism
Author(s): Jazeel Tariq (University College London Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138677487
Pages: 258 Pages, 12 Halftones, Black And White; 12 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 2/7/2019
Series: Key Ideas in Geography
Category: Human Geography