Postcolonial Geographies
Published on 1. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8264-6083-7 (ISBN)
Description
Postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked through the spatiality of colonial discourse as well as the material effects of colonialism and decolonisation. Geographical ideas about space, place, landscape, and location have helped to articulate different experiences of colonialism both in the past and present and the 'here' and 'there'. At the same time, whilst spatial images such as mobility, margins and exile abound in postcolonial writings, more material geographies have often been overlooked. This title presents a sustained geographical analysis of postcolonialism. Exploring and developing the connections between postcolonialism and geography, the essays in this book - ranging across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North America - investigate the geographies of postcolonialism and chart the contours of a postcolonial geography. Contributors include: Morag Bell, Claire Dwyer, Haydie Gooder, Jane M. Jacobs, M. Satish Kumar, Alan Lester, Mark McGuinness, Karen M. Morin, Richard Phillips, Marcus Power, Jenny Robinson, James D. Sidaway, and John Wylie.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
389 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6083-7 (9780826460837)
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Alison Blunt | Cheryl McEwan
Postcolonial Geographies
E-Book
02/2003
1st Edition
The Athlone Press
€222.99
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Persons
Alison Blunt is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Cheryl McEwan is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Birmingham
Content
Introducing Postcolonial Geographies, Alison Blunt and Cheryl McEwan Part I - Postcolonial Knowledge and Networks 1. Postcolonial geographies: Survey-explore-review. 2. Constructing colonial discourse: Britain, South Africa and the Empire in the nineteenth century, Alan Lester. 3. Imperialism, sexuality and space: Purity Movements inthe Brits Empire, Richard Phillips. 4. Inquiries as postcolonial devices: The Carnegie Corporation and pverty in South Africa, Morag Bell. Part II - Urban Order, Citizenship and Spectacle 5. The evolution of spatial ordering in colonial Madras, M. Satish Kumar. 6. Georgraphy with a difference? Citizenship and difference in postcolonial urban spaces, Mark McGuinness. 7. (Post-)colonial geographies at Johannesburg's Empire Exhitibion, 1936. 8. Exploding the myth of Portugal's 'maritime destiny': A postcolonial voyage through EXPO '98, Marcus Power. Part III - Home, Nation and Identity 9. Mining empire: Journalists in the American West, C. 1870, Karen M. Morin. 10. Earthly poles: The Antarctic voyages of Scott and Amundsen, Johnm Wylie. 11. 'Where are you from?": Young British Muslim women and the making of 'home' Claire Dwyer. 12. Belonging and non-belonging: The apology in a reconciling nation, Haydie Gooder and Jane M. Jacobs.