Globalization and postcolonialism hegemony and resistance in the twenty-first century /

• Main Author: Krishna, Sankaran.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2009.
• Series: Globalization (Lanham, Md.)
• Subjects: Postcolonialism.; Colonies > History.; Colonization > History.; Globalization.; Hegemony.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess

Globalization has become a widely used buzzword, yet popular discussions often miss its deeper realities. This book offers the first clear explanation of the impact of colonialist legacies in a globalized world in an era defined by the "War on Terror." Sankaran Krishna explores the history...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Globalization and postcolonialism : hegemony and resistance in the twenty-first century
• Intellectual and historical background : the story of unequal development from 1500-1900
• Independence or neocolonialism? : third-world development in the twentieth century
• Genealogies of the postcolonial
• Critiques of postcolonial theory
• Postcolonial encounters : Islamic "terrorism" and western civilization
• Conclusion : Postcolonialism and globalization : toward a post-Columbian imagination.