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Edge Of Empire Postcolonialism & The City
Paperback Edition: 1/1996
Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in four contemporary first world cities: two sites in London and two sites in the Australian cities of Perth and Brisbane. Through these examples the spatialised cultural politics of a number of 'postcolonial' processes are unravelled: the
imperial nostalgias of the one-time heart of empire, the City of London; the struggle of diasporic groups to make a homespace in the old imperial heartlands; the unsettling presence of Aboriginal claims for the sacred in the space of the modern city and the emergence of hybrid spaces in the contemporary city. This book is about the unruly spatial politics of race and nation, nature and culture, past and present. This is a 'global geography of the local'. The book is distinctive in that it takes theories of colonialism and postcolonialism to the space of the city - it gives real space to the spatial metaphors of much contemporary social theory. If the contemporary city is a postmodern space it has not-so-hidden geographies of imperialism and postcolonialism.The global reach of the book - its focus of two poles of one trajectory of British imperialism - provides a global assemblage which form a basis for understanding the unruly fortunes of imperialism over space and time. This is not simply a material geography of territory, it is also an imaginative geography of desire and memory.
Contents: 1. Travels on the Edge of Empire: Real Space Itineraries Talking Out of Place The Journey 2. Imperialism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Space: Colonialism and Imperialism Imperialism and Space The Limits of the Postcolonial Postmodern Space and the (Post)colonial Identity, the Past and City Space 3. Negotiating the Heart: Place and Identity in the Postimperial City of London: Difference Gathered in the City of London Making monuments Picturing the Empire Pleasures of the Hearth Imperial Illusions Continental Entanglements Colonial Returns 4. Eastern Trading: Diasporas, Dwelling and Place: Urban Imperialisms Land Unoccupied Hogarth and Sag Gosht Developing Nostalgias Trading in Community Re-inventing Home 5. Urban Dreamings: The Aboriginal Sacred in the City: Ordering the Urban Visioning Development Urban Nomadism The Erotic City Brewery Dreamings Placing the Waugal Back to the Nature Preserving the Crown Fringedwelling 6. Authentically Yours: De-Touring the Map: Nature, Culture, Colonialism Imperial Touring Indigenous Tourings Re-mapping the Colonial 7. Conclusion: Geographical Encounters Unruly Imperialism Postcolonial Possibilities.
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Pages : 208
Publisher : Routledge
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Science And Technology, Social Sciences, Anthropology/archaeology, Sociology, Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies