Postcolonial Geographies

by Blunt, Alison; McEwan, Cheryl

• ISBN13: 9780826460820
• ISBN10: 0826460828
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Athlone Pr

Summary

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>

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Introduction	1	(8)
Alison Blunt
Cheryl McEwan
PART I POSTCOLONIAL KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS
Introduction to Part I	9	(2)
Postcolonial Geographies	11	(18)
Survey--explore--review
James D. Sidaway
Constructing Colonial Discourse	29	(17)
Britain, South Africa and the Empire in the nineteenth century
Alan Lester
Imperialism, Sexuality and Space	46	(18)
Purity Movements in the British Empire
Richard Phillips
Inquiries As Postcolonial Devices	64	(21)
The Carnegie Corporation and poverty in South Africa
Morag Bell
PART II URBAN ORDER, CITIZENSHIP AND SPECTACLE
Introduction to Part II	83	(2)
The Evolution of Spatial Ordering in Colonial Madras	85	(14)
M. Satish Kumar
Geographies with a Difference?	99	(16)
Citizenship and difference in postcolonial urban spaces
Mark McGuinness
(Post)Colonial Geographies At Johannesburg's Empire Exhibition, 1936	115	(17)
Jenny Robinson
Exploding the Myth of Portugal's `Maritime Destiny'	132	(20)
A postcolonial voyage through EXPO 98
Marcus Power
PART III HOME, NATION AND IDENTITY
Introduction to Part III	149	(3)
Mining Empire	152	(17)
Journalists in the American West, ca. 1870
Karen M. Morin
Earthly Poles	169	(15)
The Antarctic voyages of Scott and Amundsen
John Wylie
`Where Are You From?'	184	(16)
Young British Muslim women and the making of `home'
Claire Dwyer
Belonging and Non-Belonging	200	(14)
The apology in a reconciling nation
Haydie Gooder
Jane M. Jacobs
Notes	214	(2)
Bibliography	216	(19)
Notes on Contributors	235	(3)
Index	238