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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815467103321

Titolo

Postcolonial economies / / edited by Jane Pollard, Cheryl McEwan and Alex Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [England] : , : Zed Books, , 2011

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2022

ISBN

1-350-22182-1

1-78032-134-1

1-283-12917-5

9786613129178

1-84813-406-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Economic geography

Postcolonialism - Economic aspects

Globalization - Economic aspects

Development economics & emerging economies

Development studies

National liberation & independence, post-colonialism

Human geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Section -- 1. Theorising the economic -- section -- 2. Postcolonial understandings of the economic -- section -- 3. Postcolonial economies : policy and practice.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' cultures encounter 'the West', economics has been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticised for their simplistic treatment of the economic and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation. Utilising examples drawn from India to Latin America, and bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies,



History and Women's Studies, Postcoloni.