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Postcolonial Economies
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Description
Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy.
Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' cultures encounter 'the west', economics-oriented approaches within social sciences have been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticised for their simplistic treatment of 'the economic' and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation.
Utilising examples drawn from India to Latin America, and bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History and Women's Studies, Postcolonial Economies breaks new ground in providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of 'the economic'.
Table of Contents
Part I: Theorising the Economic
1. Can Political Economy be Postcolonial? A Note - Dipesh Chakrabarty
2. Postcolonial Theory and Economics: Orthodox and Heterodox - Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin
3. Acts of Theory and Violence : Can the Worlds of Economic Geographies be Left in Tact? - Roger Lee
4. Economic Geographies as Situated Knowledges - Wendy Larner
Part II: Postcolonial Understandings of the Economic
5. Cultural Econo-Mixes of the Bazaar - Nitasha Kaul, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London
6. Bridging the Legal Abyss: Hawala and the Waqf? - Hilary Lim
7. Postcolonial Geographies of Latin American Migration to London: Towards a Materialist Perspective - Cathy McIlwaine
Part III: Postcolonial Economies: Policy and Practice
8. Development and Postcolonial Takes on Biopolitics and Economy - Christine Sylvester
9. Postcolonial Economies of Development Volunteering - Pat Noxolo
10. Conclusion - The Editors
Product details
| Published | May 12 2011 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 248 |
| ISBN | 9781780321349 |
| Imprint | Zed Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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This book signals that postcolonialism has lost none of its potential to provoke and surprise; setting fresh agendas.
James D Sidaway, University of Amsterdam
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This innovative collection rises to the theoretical and methodological challenge of bringing together into constructive dialogue the often antagonistic literatures on postcolonialism and (political) economy.
Jo Sharp, University of Glasgow
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This collection presents an exciting mix of scholars attuned to the productivity of postcolonial thinking who are listening, watching, moving around and toward economies in new ways.
Katherine Gibson, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy University of Western Sydney
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