The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter

ISBN-13: 9780367425746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 254 str.

Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem; Michael O'Sullivan

Opis

The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multi-disciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire.

Spis treści

Foreword: Postcolonial Studies and the History of Capital  Preface: The Economics of Empire: Bridging Postcolonial Studies Forward  1. Introduction—Empire’s License: Structural Thievery and the Political Life of Appropriated Capital  2. Decolonizing Capital: Indian Political Economy in the Shadow of Empire  3. Criminal Cities: Economics and Empire in Belfast and Johannesburg  4. Interrogating Legal World-Making Through Genre: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Colonial Reparations  5. Trading in Women’s "Troubles": Fertility Control and Postcolonial Exchanges in Irish History  6. Contemporary Plantation Narratives and the Postcolonial Memory of Capitalism  7. Waste Lands and Preserves: Olive Schreiner’s Ecological Allegories and Colonial Zimbabwe  8. Unearthing Land and Labor Disputes in Tunisia: An Uneven and Combined Development Approach to Tribal/Management Councils  9. Derailing the Rail: Indian-Kenyan Solidarity in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction  10. Coloniality, Knowledge Production, and Racialized Socio-economic Inequality in South Africa  11. Devalued Knowledge: Colonized Post-Socialism  12. Hong Kong and the Sinocentric Afterlife of an Anglophone Postcolonial Discourse