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1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
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1st ed
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9781848134065
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Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' cultures encounter 'the West', economics has been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticised for their simplistic treatment of the economic and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation. Utilising examples drawn from India to Latin America, and bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History and Women's Studies, Postcolonial Economies breaks new ground in providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of the economic
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Intro -- About the editors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: postcolonial economies -- Introduction -- Engagements: postcolonial theory and economic theory -- Postcolonial economies -- Structure of the book -- References -- Section 1: Theorising the economic -- 1 Can political economy be postcolonial? A note -- I -- II -- III -- References -- 2 Postcolonial theory and economics: orthodox and heterodox -- Materialist critiques of postcolonial theory -- Economic moments in postcolonial theory -- Postcolonial critique in economics -- The terrain of economic postcoloniality -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Acts of theory and violence: can the worlds of economic geographies be left intact? -- The postcolonial impulse -- (Postcolonial) economic geographies -- Economic geographies and circuits of value -- Concluding comments: economic geographies and the possibility of a postcolonial politics of power? -- References -- 4 Economic geographies as situated knowledges -- Introduction -- Situating myself -- Situated knowledges and postcolonial economies -- Towards situated economic geographies -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section 2: Postcolonial understandings of the economic -- 5 Cultural econo-mixes of the bazaar -- Introduction -- A visit to the bazaar -- How bizarre is the bazaar? -- Travelling to Janpath -- Table 5.1 -- Figure 5.1 Janpath bazaar: the site of the gaze -- Figure 5.2 Janpath Lane -- Figure 5.3 Tehbazaaril Lane -- Figure 5.4 Janpath at night -- By way of conclusion -- References -- 6 Bridging the legal abyss: hawala and the waqf? -- Introduction -- 'Flying Money' -- The waqf in trust -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Postcolonial geographies of Latin American migration to London from a materialist perspective -- Introduction -- Interpreting international migration from a postcolonial perspective
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Contextualising Latin Americans in postcolonial London -- The postcolonial geographies of migrating from Latin America to London -- The everyday postcolonial practices of survival among Latin American migrants in London -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section 3: Postcolonial economies: policy and practice -- 8 Development and postcolonial takes on biopolitics and economy -- A different biopolitics -- Postcolonial moves I -- Postcolonial moves II -- Ending it -- References -- 9 Postcolonial economies of development volunteering -- Introduction -- Moral economy, postcolonial development -- Development volunteering as 'gifting' -- Development volunteering as transnational professionalism -- Conclusions -- References -- Notes on contributors -- Index -- About Zed Books
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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About the editors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: postcolonial economies; Introduction; Engagements: postcolonial theory and economic theory; Postcolonial economies; Structure of the book; References; Section 1: Theorising the economic; 1 Can political economy be postcolonial? A note; I; II; III; References; 2 Postcolonial theory and economics: orthodox and heterodox; Materialist critiques of postcolonial theory; Economic moments in postcolonial theory; Postcolonial critique in economics; The terrain of economic postcoloniality; Conclusion; References
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3 Acts of theory and violence: can the worlds of economic geographies be left intact?The postcolonial impulse; (Postcolonial) economic geographies; Economic geographies and circuits of value; Concluding comments: economic geographies and the possibility of a postcolonial politics of power?; References; 4 Economic geographies as situated knowledges; Introduction; Situating myself; Situated knowledges and postcolonial economies; Towards situated economic geographies; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Section 2: Postcolonial understandings of the economic
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5 Cultural econo-mixes of the bazaarIntroduction; A visit to the bazaar; How bizarre is the bazaar?; Travelling to Janpath; Table 5.1; Figure 5.1 Janpath bazaar: the site of the gaze; Figure 5.2 Janpath Lane; Figure 5.3 Tehbazaaril Lane; Figure 5.4 Janpath at night; By way of conclusion; References; 6 Bridging the legal abyss: hawala and the waqf?; Introduction; 'Flying Money'; The waqf in trust; Conclusion; References; 7 Postcolonial geographies of Latin American migration to London from a materialist perspective; Introduction
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Interpreting international migration from a postcolonial perspectiveContextualising Latin Americans in postcolonial London; The postcolonial geographies of migrating from Latin America to London; The everyday postcolonial practices of survival among Latin American migrants in London; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Section 3: Postcolonial economies: policy and practice; 8 Development and postcolonial takes on biopolitics and economy; A different biopolitics; Postcolonial moves I; Postcolonial moves II; Ending it; References; 9 Postcolonial economies of development volunteering
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IntroductionMoral economy, postcolonial development; Development volunteering as 'gifting'; Development volunteering as transnational professionalism; Conclusions; References; Notes on contributors; Index; About Zed Books
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ISBN 9781848134041
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Print version Zein-Elabdin, Eiman Postcolonial Economies London : Zed Books,c2011 ISBN 9781848134041
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English
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