Postcolonial Economies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848134045 ISBN 13: 9781848134041

Publisher: Zed Books, 2011

Synopsis

Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalization, transnational flows of capital and workers, and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume center 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 (e.g., Development Economics, Economic Geography, and the discipline of Economics itself) have been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticized for their simplistic treatment of "the economic" and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation. Utilizing world-wide examples drawn from India to Latin America, Postcolonial Economies breaks new ground in providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of "the economic," bringing together scholars in a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History, and Women's Studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Pollard is a researcher whose interests embrace geographies of money and finance and their intersection with regional economic development. She sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Economic Geography, Geography Compass and Growth and Change.  Cheryl McEwan is the author of Gender, Geography and Empire and Postcolonialism and Development, and is co-editor of Postcolonial Geographies. She is currently Editor (Development Section) of Geography Compass and sits of the Editorial Board of the RGS-IBG/Blackwell Book Series. Alex Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at Newcastle University in the UK. She is co-editor of Geographies of Commodity Chains.

Review:

"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. The editors and authors break new ground, expanding both the scope of postcolonial analysis and established understandings of the economic, and thereby opening up provocative research agendas." -- Katherine Gibson, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy University of Western Sydney

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848134045
• ISBN 13: 9781848134041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Pollard Jane, McEwan Doctor Cheryl, Hughes Doctor Alex