Overview
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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Author: Alison Blunt , Cheryl McEwan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.534kg
ISBN: 9780826460820
ISBN 10: 0826460828
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 01 February 2003
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
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.
Reviews
. ..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
. ..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 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
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
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
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Alison Blunt is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Cheryl McEwan is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Birmingham
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