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

• Pubblicazione: London [England] : , : Zed Books, , 2011; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2022
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.9
• Soggetto topico: Economic geography; Postcolonialism - Economic aspects; Globalization - Economic aspects; Development economics & emerging economies; Development studies; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Human geography
• Persona (resp. second.): HughesAlex; McEwanCheryl; PollardJane
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Postcolonial economies
• ISBN: 1-350-22182-1; 1-78032-134-1; 1-283-12917-5; 9786613129178; 1-84813-406-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815467103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II