Postcolonialism : a very short introduction

Young, Robert 1950- (author.).

Summary: "Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of western political and cultural domination. Situating the discussion in a wide cultural and geographical context, he draws on examples such as the status of indigenous peoples, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, and global social and ecological movements. In this new edition he also includes updated material on race, slavery, and postcolonial gender politics. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past and enables us to decolonize our own lives in the present."--Amazon.ca.

Record details

ISBN: 9780198856832 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
xx, 174 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First edition published 2003"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Subaltern knowledges -- Colonialisms, decolonization, decoloniality -- Slavery, race, caste -- History and power, from below and above -- Nomads, nation-states, borders -- Hybridity -- The ambivalence of the veil -- Gender, queering, and feminism in a postcolonial context -- Globalization from a postcolonial perspective -- Ecology and indigeneity -- Translation.