Beschreibung:
This book examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship, and is a lively, stimulating and relevant introduction to 'postcolonial geography' that elaborates on the critical interventions in social, cultural and political life this important subfield is poised to make.
1. Postcolonial Theory and Geography 2. A Brief History of Postcolonial Geography Part I Spaces 3. Orientalism, the Geographical Imagination and Postcolonial Spatialities 4. Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Cities 5. Nature, Postcolonialism, Environmentalism. Part II 'Identity'/Hybridity 6. 'Identity', interstitiality, hybridity 7. Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, Planetarity: the challenge of living together Part III Knowledge 8. Subaltern Studies and Geography 9. Responsibility, Geography, Knowledge 10. Coda: Postcolonial futures in the shadow of the Anthropocene