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 examples drawn from everywhere 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.
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This book signals that postcolonialism has lost none of its potential to provoke and surprise; setting fresh agendas. * James D Sidaway, University of Amsterdam * This innovative collection rises to the theoretical and methodological challenge of bringing together into constructive dialogue the often antagonistic literatures on postcolonialism and (political) economy. * Jo Sharp, University of Glasgow * 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. * Katherine Gibson, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy University of Western Sydney *
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This book provides a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of 'the economic'.
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| Introduction: postcolonial economies |
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Section 1 Theorising the economic |
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1 Can political economy be postcolonial? A note |
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2 Postcolonial theory and economics: orthodox and heterodox |
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3 Acts of theory and violence: can the worlds of economic geographies be left intact? |
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4 Economic geographies as situated knowledges |
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Section 2 Postcolonial understandings of the economic |
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5 Cultural econo-mixes of the bazaar |
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6 Bridging the legal abyss: hawala and the waqf? |
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7 Postcolonial geographies of Latin American migration to London from a materialist perspective |
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157 | (28) |
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Section 3 Postcolonial economies: policy and practice |
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8 Development and postcolonial takes on biopolitics and economy |
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185 | (20) |
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9 Postcolonial economies of development volunteering |
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| Notes on contributors |
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Jane Pollard has published articles in journals such as Antipode, Area, the Journal of Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Urban Studies. 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 (2000) and Postcolonialism and Development (2008), and is co-editor of Postcolonial Geographies (2002). 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 (with Suzanne Reimer) of Geographies of Commodity Chains (2004).
