Postcolonialism

ISBN-13: 9781138677487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str.

Tariq Jazeel

Opis

This book examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship, and 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.

　

　

　

Spis treści

1. Postcolonial Theory and Geography 2. A Brief History of  Postcolonial Geography Part I Spaces 3. Orientalism, the Geographical Imagination and Postcolonial Spatialities 4. Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Cities 5. Nature, Postcolonialism, Environmentalism.  Part II 'Identity'/Hybridity 6. ‘Identity’, interstitiality, hybridity  7. Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, Planetarity: the challenge of living together  Part III Knowledge 8. Subaltern Studies and Geography 9. Responsibility, Geography, Knowledge 10. Coda: Postcolonial futures in the shadow of the Anthropocene

O autorze

Tariq Jazeel teaches Human Geography at University College London in the UK, where he co-founded and co-directs UCL’s Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. His research is positioned at the intersection of critical geography, postcolonial and critical theory, and South Asian studies.