Postcolonial Critique After Posthumanism: Sensing Other Life and the Problem of Ontology
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1783484675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book will also address how relational and posthumanist approaches can themselves learn from postcolonial histories, and so respond effectively to ongoing legacies of contemporary injustice.. But its anthropocentrism ignores the more-than-human worlds that are hugely important to many indigenous cultures. The text explores advances around the concepts of political ontology and posthumanism to show how postcolonial studies can draw further on work from geography, anthropology, politics, literature, and indigenous studies. How can the field move forwards in order to better understand ideas of materiality and the non-human?This is the first book that brings together emerging, influential and interdisciplinary work on posthumanism to advance postcolonial research. Bridging the gap that has emerged between innovative theoretical and empirical demands, and the insufficient conceptual means of orthodox postcolonialism, it proposes new trajectories through which to advance postcolonial scholarship, even seeking to r
He co-ordinated a panel on posthumanism and postcolonialism at the 2014 RGS/IBG conference and will lead another at the 2015 AAG conference.. Mark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies in the School of Geographical Sciences, at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
He co-ordinated a panel on posthumanism and postcolonialism at the 2014 RGS/IBG conference and will lead another at the 2015 AAG conference.. About the AuthorMark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies in the School of Geographical Sciences, at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK