Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823280094-009
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823280094-008
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780823280094-012
{"title":"11. The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo/city","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823280094-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823280094-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":231336,"journal":{"name":"The Postcolonial Contemporary","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115293540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280063.003.0009
Vinay Gidwani
The concept of “waste”, operating in multiple registers, forms the basis for a series of forays into Marx and political economy. The chapter traverses a wide terrain: from over-accumulation of capital that portends economic crisis, to planned obsolescence as a response to under-consumption, to the proliferation of commodity detritus that threatens the ability of contemporary cities to function, to the artful and arduous toils of waste workers who salvage value from discards, to the wanton expenditure of human potential in precarious forms of employment that involve removal or repurposing of waste matter, to the global multiplication of superfluous populations who can be enrolled in populist mobilizations. Ultimately, the chapter wagers that “waste” can be the heterogeneous site for a generative quarrel between Marxist political economy and postcolonial critique.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280063.003.0008
S. Abbas
This chapter presents a meditation on the idea of Europe, postcolonial nationalism, the ethnic cleansing, Phil and Neo-Hellenism, the Indian Partition, and the Greek-Turkish population transfer, through a reading of the use of ekphrasis (the verbal description of an aesthetic object) in Quratulain Hyder's Ag ka Darya and River of Fire and Stratis Myrivilis's The Mermaid Madonna. It argues for the necessity of recognizing the mutual constitution and "porosity" of Europe and Asia and, more generally, North Africa.
本章通过阅读quuratulain Hyder的《Ag ka Darya》和the River of Fire and Stratis Myrivilis的《the Mermaid Madonna》中使用的ekphrasis(对审美对象的口头描述),对欧洲观念、后殖民民族主义、种族清洗、菲尔和新希腊主义、印度分界以及希腊-土耳其人口转移进行了思考。它认为有必要承认欧洲和亚洲以及更普遍的北非的共同构成和“多孔性”。
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280063.003.0002
Anthony Alessandrini
This chapter examines Michel Foucault’s writings on Iran, alongside several texts by Frantz Fanon, in order to bring out certain aspects of their respective approaches to ongoing revolutions. It argues that such approaches are necessary for postcolonial studies to do justice to the revolutions of our time, such as the still-unfolding struggles of the Arab Spring.
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In our apparently postcolonial age, colonization is proceeding apace in Goolarabooloo country near Broome in Western Australia where sovereignty has never been ceded, and no treaty ratified. The colonial ‘settler’ economy was established in the late 19th century with the pearling and pastoral industries, but today it is multinational mining companies (‘extraction colonialism’) that are extending their reach with the urging of the State government and even some Aboriginal agencies. This ethnographic study describes two ‘worlds’: Those (the ‘Moderns’) who like to see themselves as ‘naturally’ extending the territory of a universalist modernity via their institutions of science and technology, governmental organisation, the law and the economy. Under scrutiny, this world turns out to be less robust institutionally and conceptually than it pretends to be; it operates with fantasies, blunders, poor planning, little negotiation and waste. Often it works, but in the instance of the four-year struggle between Woodside Energy and the Goolarabooloo, the latter was able to resist the former’s desire to build a liquefied gas plant on their traditional land. Woodside and its partners left with billions of dollars wasted in the effort. The ‘world’ of the Indigenous Goolarabooloo is the second group of institutions my extended ethnography will describe.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823280063.003.0003
Laurie R. Lambert
This chapter analyzes Dionne Brand’s poetry collection, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984), and her novel In Another Place, Not Here (1996). While Chronicles pinpoints the misrepresentation of the Grenada Revolution in anti-revolutionary narratives emanating from American imperialism, In Another Place highlights how structures of healing and alternative epistemologies of black radicalism are developed between queer women who are on the margins of both the postcolonial Caribbean nation and the revolution intended to subvert American imperialist forces. Brand’s writing interrogates the black radical tradition in search of a radical feminist politics that can account for gender and sexuality alongside race and class.
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