Postcolonial economies / edited by Jane Pollard, Cheryl McEwan and Alex Hughes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollard, Jane.

McEwan, Cheryl.

Hughes, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic geography.

Postcolonialism--Economic aspects.

Postcolonialism.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books Ltd, 2011.

Summary:

Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers, and the making and remaking of territorial borders assume centre stage in debates about contemporary economics. Yet, despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' cultures encounter 'the West', economics has been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticised for their simplistic treatment of the economic and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation.

Utilising examples drawn from India to Latin America, and bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History and Women's Studies, Postcolonial Economies breaks new ground in providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of the economic. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section 1 Theorising the economic

1 Can political economy be postcolonial? A note / Dipesh Chakrabarty Chakrabarty, Dipesh 23

2 Postcolonial theory and economics: orthodox and heterodox / Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin Zein-Elabdin, Eiman O. 37

3 Acts of theory and violence: can the worlds of economic geographies be left intact? / Roger Lee Lee, Roger 63

4 Economic geographies as situated knowledges / Wendy Larner Larner, Wendy 81

Section 2 Postcolonial understandings of the economic

5 Cultural econo-mixes of the bazaar / Nitasha Kaul Kaul, Nitasha 107

6 Bridging the legal abyss: hawala and the waqf? / Hilary Lim Lim, Hilary 129

7 Postcolonial geographies of Latin American migration to London from a materialist perspective / Cathy McIlwaine McIlwaine, Cathy 157

Section 3 Postcolonial economies: policy and practice

8 Development and postcolonial takes on biopolitics and economy / Christine Sylvester Sylvester, Christine 185

9 Postcolonial economies of development volunteering / Patricia Noxolo Noxolo, Patricia 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1848134053

9781848134058

1848134045

9781848134041

OCLC:

681872582