Postcolonialism (Very Short Introductions) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Postcolonialism An account of the history and debates in post colonialism. This book situates post colonialism in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as a historical condition, and as a means of changing the way that we think about the world.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 25 September 2003
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: History Of Ideas | Politics & Government | Political Science & Theory | Colonialism & Imperialism | National Liberation & Independence, Post-colonialism
- ISBN 13: 9780192801821 ISBN 10: 0192801821
- Sales rank: 38,128
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Full description for Postcolonialism
This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, with examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues, postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, and so in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past.
