Postcolonial Geographies (Writing Past Colonialism Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826460836 ISBN 13: 9780826460837

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Alison Blunt is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Cheryl McEwan is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Birmingham

Review

"Postcolonial Geographies is long overdue. It will help in moving postcolonial discourse beyond its preoccupation with deconstructing colonial texts or engaging in narrow forms of cultural criticism."—Haripriya Rangan, Monash University

"...a spirited attempt to chart the contours of a postcolonial geography, and what constitutes 'a meaningfully decolonized geography' (p.6), in an ecumenical and reflexive manner. Blunt and McEwan should be congratulated on organizing the gamut of themes tackled by the authors into three fairly coherent sections...The volume opens up a vibrant intellectual space in which we might start to tell more intricately geographical stories about what it means to find one's place in a world that has been fundamentally transformed by imperialism's core logic of de-territorialization and re-terroritorialization, and ongoing landscaping of power." -Daniel Clayton, Janus Head

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826460836
• ISBN 13: 9780826460837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Blunt Alison, McEwan Cheryl