Decolonising governance : archipelagic thinking / Paul Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Paul, 1951- author.

Series:

Postcolonial politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Pacific Area.

Decolonization.

Self-determination, National--Pacific Area.

Self-determination, National.

Communication in politics--Pacific Area.

Communication in politics.

Archipelagoes--Pacific Area.

Archipelagoes.

Regional planning--Pacific Area.

Regional planning.

Environmental management--Pacific Area.

Environmental management.

Law of the sea.

Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

xi, 235 pages : illustations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction- are thus treated 'parochially' and ineffectually. Not designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to be drawn differently; overlooked, erased or forgotten histories and geographies need to be recovered and plotted. Taking the forgotten or marginalized cultural/intellectual histories and geographies of the archipelago as its theme, this volume drives forward current discussions about the changing relationship between governance and democracy. It builds on the author's own contributions to new discourses of place making that engage public space urban design, culturally-led regional development and contemporary bicultural land/sea management practice. An important intervention in the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental humanities, it is methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics and will be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas, including postcolonial politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Exchange rates : figuring the archipelago

From your own seashore : a philosophical geography

Ocean connections : local knowledge and regions of care

Affiliations after the flood : archipelagic poetics

Overflow : a model for culture-based regional development

Bacan : biodiversity in the anaarchipelago.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780815380498

0815380496

OCLC:

1030906246