Colonial And Post Colonial Geographies Of India

Author : Saraswati Raju,M Satish Kumar,Stuart Corbridge
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0761934367

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Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India by Saraswati Raju,M Satish Kumar,Stuart Corbridge Pdf

This collection of original essays by scholars of geography from India, Western Europe, and the USA provides important insights into the way contemporary geographers are engaging with India. The earlier narrow colonial focus that saw India as a country of resources and "peoples" (tribes and castes) has now been discarded for a broader view located in mainstream intellectual frameworks and informed by a public policy perspective. This volume highlights how contemporary geographers see and write on topics such as the state, nation, community, environment, and division of labor, while keeping in mind issues of spatiality and territoriality.

Author : Saraswati Raju,M. Satish Kumar,Stuart Corbridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : India
ISBN : 8178295830

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Colonial and Post-colonial Geographies of India by Saraswati Raju,M. Satish Kumar,Stuart Corbridge Pdf

Author : Alison Blunt,Cheryl McEwan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826460820

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Postcolonial Geographies by Alison Blunt,Cheryl McEwan Pdf

Postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked through the spatiality of colonial discourse as well as the material effects of colonialism and decolonization.Geographical ideas about space, place, landscape, and location have helped to articulate different experiences of colonialism both in the past and present and the "here" and "there". At the same time, while spatial images such as mobility, margins and exile abound in postcolonial writings, more material geographies have often been overlooked.Postcolonial Geographies presents the first sustained geographical analysis of postcolonialism. Exploring and developing the connections between postcolonialism and geography, the essays in this book—ranging across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North America—investigate the geographies of postcolonialism and chart the contours of a postcolonial geography. Contributors:Morag Bell, Claire Dwyer, Haydie Gooder, Jane M. Jacobs, M. Satish Kumar, Alan Lester, Mark McGuinness, Karen M. Morin, Richard Phillips, Marcus Power, Jenny Robinson, James D. Sidaway, John Wylie>

Author : Tariq Jazeel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317195337

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Postcolonialism by Tariq Jazeel Pdf

Postcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced-level students and researchers, the book 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. The book is structured around three intersecting parts – Spaces, 'Identity'/hybridity, Knowledge – that broadly follow the trajectory of postcolonial studies since the late 1970s. It comprises ten main chapters, each of which is situated at the intersections of postcolonialism and critical human geography. In doing so, Postcolonialism develops three key arguments. First, that postcolonialism is best conceived as an intellectually creative and practical set of methodologies or approaches for critically engaging existing manifestations of power and exclusion in everyday life and in taken-as-given spaces. Second, that postcolonialism is, at its core, concerned with the politics of representation, both in terms of how people and space are represented, but also the politics surrounding who is able to represent themselves and on what/whose terms. Third, the book argues that postcolonialism itself is an inherently geographical intellectual enterprise, despite its origins in literary theory. In developing these arguments and addressing a series of relevant and international case studies and examples throughout, Postcolonialism not only demonstrates the importance of postcolonial theory to the contemporary critical geographical imagination. It also argues that geographers have much to offer to continued theorizations and workings of postcolonial theory, politics and intellectual debates going forward. This is a book that brings critical analyses of the continued and omnipresent legacies of colonialism and imperialism to the heart of human geography, but also one that returns an avowedly critical geographical disposition to the core of interdisciplinary postcolonial studies.

Author : Elleke Boehmer,Professor of World Literature in English Elleke Boehmer,Rosinka Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136819575

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The Indian Postcolonial by Elleke Boehmer,Professor of World Literature in English Elleke Boehmer,Rosinka Chaudhuri Pdf

India has often been at the centre of debates on and definitions of the postcolonial condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the field, this Critical Reader confronts how theory in the Indian context is responding in vital terms to our understanding of that condition today. The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader is made up of four sections looking in turn at: visual cultures translating cultural traditions the ethical text global/cosmopolitan worlds. Each section is prefaced with a short introduction by the editors that locate these interdisciplinary articles within the contemporary national and international context. Showcasing the diversity and vitality of current debate, this volume collects the work of both established figures and a new generation of cultural critics. Challenging and unsettling many basic premises of postcolonial studies, this volume is the ideal Reader for students and scholars of the Indian Postcolonial.

Author : Alison Blunt,Cheryl McEwan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847141767

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Postcolonial Geographies by Alison Blunt,Cheryl McEwan Pdf

Postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked through the spatiality of colonial discourse as well as the material effects of colonialism and decolonization.Geographical ideas about space, place, landscape, and location have helped to articulate different experiences of colonialism both in the past and present and the "here" and "there". At the same time, while spatial images such as mobility, margins and exile abound in postcolonial writings, more material geographies have often been overlooked.Postcolonial Geographies presents the first sustained geographical analysis of postcolonialism. Exploring and developing the connections between postcolonialism and geography, the essays in this book--ranging across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North America--investigate the geographies of postcolonialism and chart the contours of a postcolonial geography. Contributors:Morag Bell, Claire Dwyer, Haydie Gooder, Jane M. Jacobs, M. Satish Kumar, Alan Lester, Mark McGuinness, Karen M. Morin, Richard Phillips, Marcus Power, Jenny Robinson, James D. Sidaway, John Wylie

Author : Akhil Gupta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0822322137

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Postcolonial Developments by Akhil Gupta Pdf

This definitive study explores what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Based on fieldwork done in the village of Alipur in rural north India from the early 1980s through the 1990s, POSTCOLONIAL DEVELOPMENTS challenges the dichotomy of "developed" and "underdevelopoed", and offers a new model for future ethnographic scholarship. 15 photos.

Author : John Thieme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137456878

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Postcolonial Literary Geographies by John Thieme Pdf

This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.

Author : Loretta Lees,David Demeritt
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800883499

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Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Loretta Lees,David Demeritt Pdf

With 78 specially commissioned entries written by a diverse range of contributors, this essential reference book covers the breadth and depth of human geography to provide a lively and accessible state of the art of the discipline for students, instructors and researchers.

Author : Priya Jha,Rajinder Dudrah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000369229

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Designing (Post)Colonial Knowledge by Priya Jha,Rajinder Dudrah Pdf

Over the past 20 years we have seen critical design studies emerge as a springboard for scholars, activists, and those working in the creative industries. Design studies has enabled critics to link the relationship between constructions of knowledge and the emotional commitments that both practitioners and audiences bring to the making and uses of design work. A critical focus on these practices can reveal issues such as the distribution of power and emotional evocations and experiences in and through different designs. At the same time, the use of design studies has drawn on diverse fields such as art history, architecture, public policy, and Geographic Information Systems. This collected volume, the first of its kind, engages with these fields of critical inquiry with ideas and debates in post-colonial studies, and in media and cultural studies. It contributes to a growing body of scholarship that examines material culture and its relationship between design and its construction of knowledge about multicultural identities in the colonial and postcolonial periods, with a focus on South Asia. The chapters pose questions about colonial history, colonial and postcolonial cultural practices, and the aestheticization of South Asian art, design, and media forms as they inform identities in a deterritorialized global culture. The sites of the investigation by the contributors reflect the interdisciplinarity of design studies and share the insistence on emphasizing the vernacular: Indian fashion design, lithographic design in Muslim princely states, and Indian floor drawings live alongside museum exhibitions, shopping malls, and film spaces. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

Author : Anne Collett,Leigh Dale
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004376540

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Postcolonial Past & Present by Anne Collett,Leigh Dale Pdf

In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty to analyse the ways artists and intellectuals in the postcolonial world make sense of turbulent local and global forces.

Author : Stephen Legg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009215312

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Round Table Conference Geographies by Stephen Legg Pdf

Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India's constitutional future. This geographical analysis explores the imaginations, infrastructures, urban spaces and contestations of the meeting.

Author : Stephen Legg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781405181570

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Spaces of Colonialism by Stephen Legg Pdf

Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault’s lecture courses Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, the policing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urban settings Undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life

Author : Manu Goswami
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226305103

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Producing India by Manu Goswami Pdf

When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.

Author : Manish Chalana,Ashima Krishna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000296365

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Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India by Manish Chalana,Ashima Krishna Pdf

Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India seeks to position the conservation profession within historical, theoretical, and methodological frames to demonstrate how the field has evolved in the postcolonial decades and follow its various trajectories in research, education, advocacy, and practice. Split into four sections, this book covers important themes of institutional and programmatic developments in the field of conservation; critical and contemporary challenges facing the profession; emerging trends in practice that seek to address contemporary challenges; and sustainable solutions to conservation issues. The cases featured within the book elucidate the evolution of the heritage conservation profession, clarifying the role of key players at the central, state, and local level, and considering intangible, minority, colonial, modern, and vernacular heritages among others. This book also showcases unique strands of conservation practice in the postcolonial decades to demonstrate the range, scope, and multiple avenues of development in the last seven decades. An ideal read for those interested in architecture, planning, historic preservation, urban studies, and South Asian studies.