Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 270 p.)
Edition:
Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783111005744
Series Statement:
Culture & Conflict 25
Content:
In the millennial transition the prefix 'post' had come to signify more and more not just the realisation of a 'coming after' but also of the impossibility of not seeing the present as still very much working through the wounds of the past. Yet with the appearance of pseudo-concepts such as 'post-truth' after an equally imaginary 'death of History', the logic of the 'post', itself always already under questioning, may appear to have outlived its usefulness. How to make sense of postcolonial theory in Europe in the present? One way might be to renew its significance as world conflicts have entered a new 'post-imperial phase' with the return of ideologies of empire in various parts of the world. The essays in this volume address those questions at both a conceptual, theoretical level, and through the analysis of specific case studies. In the Introduction Paulo de Medeiros and Sandra Ponzanesi review the main questions outlined above in relation to the current debates in the Humanities from their respective disciplinary perspectives. The volume is organised in four sections, each containing four chapters. Even though all the chapters present a reflection on Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, some focus more specifically on aspects of the crisis in a global perspective such as humanitarian crisis and the role of mediatization of conflicts, to issues related to human rights, refugees, migrancy, environmental crisis to questions of memory and postmemory as well as the critique of art and utopian thought
Note:
Issued also in print
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111006178
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111005713
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9783111005713
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Postcolonial theory and crisis Berlin : De Gruyter, 2024 ISBN 9783111005713
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3111005712
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783111005744
