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Geographies of Postcolonialism by Dr Joanne Sharp

Geographies of Postcolonialism Dr Joanne Sharp ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN: 1412907780, 9781412907781
Page: 176

Robin Butlin's Geographies of Empire serves as the March 2012 Book of the Month. Linked to the geographies of post-colonialism, and sustainable development. Drawing upon postcolonial theory and the exhortations of Robinson to rethink our models of urban theory (2005) and “encourage an acknowledgement of the parochial nature of much of what still passes for universal theory in the western academy “(2003: 65). On July 22-23 (Monday and Tuesday), 2013, FASS Cities Research Cluster will hold a workshop on Geographies of Aspiration: Urban Places, Constitutive Connections. Of America, and on US Marxist geographer Jim Blaut's Colonizer's Model of the World and then in sequence introduces a number of more recent understandings of imperialism concluding with post colonialism, gender analysis and indigenous knowledge. In passing Butlin also reveals some of the ways in which geography as a body of knowledge was part of imperial endeavour. I agree wholeheartedly, as will be seen below -- but would add that this injunction should be applied not just to the medieval geographies and materials examined but to the provenance of the postcolonial studies included. Because he's, like, in Oklahoma, right? Okie gonna pray to the Lord, right? Chapter Four focuses on the types of knowledge about development that are required by students taking public examinations in geography at GCSE, AS and.