The decolonization of imagination : culture, knowledge, and power
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The decolonization of imagination : culture, knowledge, and power
Zed Books, 1995
- : hard
- : pbk
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Note
Chiefly rev. papers originally presented at a conference held 1991 in Amsterdam
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Shifting imaginaries : decolonization, internal decolonization, postcoloniality / Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Bhikhu Parekh
- Continuities in imagination / Marion O'Callaghan
- "Dying races" : rationalizing genocide in the nineteenth century / Patrick Brantlinger
- Ethnographic showcases, 1870-1930 / Raymond Corbey
- Liberalism and colonialism : a critique of Locke and Mill / Bhikhu Parekh
- Samurai and self-colonization in Japan / Hiroshi Yoshioka
- Metaphors and the Middle East : crisis discourse on Gaza / Toine van Teeffelen
- "Mixed bloods" and the cultural politics of European identity in colonial Southeast Asia / Ann Stoler
- Patterns of exclusion : imaginaries of class, nation, ethnicity, and gender in Europe / Jan Berting
- Culture wars in the United States : closing reflections on the century of the colour line / Ronald Takaki
- Teaching for the times / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- The emerging metastate versus the politics of ethno-nationalist identity / Sol Yurick
- The self wandering between cultural localization and globalization / Susantha Goonatilake
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection provides an overview of strategies towards cultural decolonization in a post-Cold War world and to explore options for a global cultural politics. Addressing itself to an audience in both the South and the North, the book's contributors explore the relations between power and culture, between domination and the imagination. Acknowledging that former colonizers and colonized have both been shaped by a colonial imaginary, they explore a variety of decolonization strategies. This perspective rejects Eurocentrism and other forms of Western ethnocentrism, as well as traditional Third World cultural nationalism as a form of resistance to imperialism. Instead, a new vision is offered that opens the way to polycentrism, a normalization of cultural pluralism, and a post-coloniality that accepts a transcendence of old North-South boundaries.
Table of Contents
- Decolonization, internal decolonization, postcolonialism. Part 1 Dominant imaginaries: continuities in imagination
- "dying races" - rationalizing genocide in the 19th century
- ethnographic showcases, 1870-1930
- liberalism and colonialism - a critique of Locke and Mill
- samurai and self-colonization in Japan
- metaphors and the Middle East - crisis discourse on Gaza. Part 2 Imaginaries of cultural pluralism: "mixed bloods" and the cultural politics of European identity in colonial Southeast Asia
- patterns of exclusion - imageries of class, nation, ethnicity and gender in Europe
- culture wars in the United States - closing reflections on the century of the colour line
- teaching for the times. Part 3 Global imaginaries: the emerging metastate versus the politics of ethno-nationalist identity
- the self-wandering between cultural localization and globalization.
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