Screen LibraryGeopolitics and the post-colonial rethinking North-South relations /
Highlighting the contribution of Third World intellectuals, it examines the changing nature of spatial power and cultural representation. The book is unique in the way it reconceptualizes geopolitical analysis from a post-colonial perspective. A key motif concerns tracing the historical impact of US...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470756218 |
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Highlighting the contribution of Third World intellectuals, it examines the changing nature of spatial power and cultural representation. The book is unique in the way it reconceptualizes geopolitical analysis from a post-colonial perspective. A key motif concerns tracing the historical impact of US power on the societies of the South especially the Latin South. Throughout, ideas and events, interventions and representations are woven together in a critique of the effects of Western power. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-276) and index. |
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9780470756218 0470756217 9780470755556 0470755555 |
| Index Number: | JZ1251 |
| CLC: | D81 |
| Contents: | Conceptual and historical issues -- For a post-colonial geopolitics -- Emerging empire and the civilizing powers of intervention -- Waves of Western theory -- Modernizing the other and the three worlds of development -- The rise of neo-liberalism and the expansion of Western power -- Archipelagos of critical thinking -- Societies of insurgent theory: the dependentistas write back -- Exploring other zones of difference: from the post-modern to the post-colonial -- Geopolitics in a globalizing world -- Post-colonial questions for global times -- 'Another world is possible' -- on social movemen |