Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City

by Jacobs,Jane M.

• ISBN13: 9780415120067
• ISBN10: 0415120063
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in four contemporary first world cities: two sites in London, and two in the Australian cities of Perth and Brisbane. Through these examples the spatialized cultural politics of a number of postcolonial processesare unravelled: the imperial nostalgias of the one-time heart of empire, the City of London; the struggle of diasporic groups to make a homespace in the old imperial heartlands; the unsettling presence of Aboriginal claims for the sacred in the space of the modern city. The book isdistinctive in that it takes theories of colonialism and postcolonialism to the space of the city, giving real space to the spatial metaphors of much contemporary social theory. It is about the unruly spatial politics of race and nation, nature and culture, past and present.

Author Biography

Jane M. Jacobs is a Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Travels on the Edge of Empire: Real Space

Itineraries

Talking Out of Place

The Journey

Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Space: Colonialism and Imperialism

Imperialism and Space

The Limits of the Postcolonial

Postmodern Space and the (Post)

Colonial

Identity, the Past and City Space

Negotiating the Heart: Place and Identity in the Postimperial City of London: Difference Gathered in the City of London

Making monuments

Picturing the EmpirePleasures of the Hearth

Imperial IllusionsContinental Entanglements

Colonial Returns

Eastern Trading: Diasporas, Dwelling and Place: Urban Imperialisms

Land Unoccupied

Hogarth and Sag Gosht

Developing Nostalgias

Trading in Community

Re-inventing Home

Urban Dreamings: The Aboriginal Sacred in the City: Ordering the Urban

Visioning Development

Urban Nomadism

The Erotic CityBrewery Dreamings

Placing the Waugal

Back to the Nature

Preserving the Crown

Fringedwelling

Authentically Yours: De-Touring the Map: Nature, Culture, Colonialism

Imperial Touring

Indigenous Tourings

Re-mapping the Colonial

Conclusion: Geographical Encounters

Unruly Imperialism

Postcolonial Possibilities

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.