Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities

Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south.

List of contents

Acknowledgements/1. The Algebra of Power/2. A Tattered Map/3. Migrating Modernities/4. Lessons from the South/5. Scarred Landscapes/6. Folds in Time/References/Index

About the author

Iain Chambers is presently Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Oriental University in Naples where he has been Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, and presently coordinates the PhD programme in 'Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone world'. He is known for his interdisciplinary and intercultural work on music, popular and metropolitan cultures. More recently he has transmuted this line of research into a series of postcolonial analyses of the formation of the modern Mediterranean.

Summary

Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south.

Product details

• Authors: Iain Chambers, Chambers Iain
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2017
• EAN: 9781786603319
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-331-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Radical Cultural Studies; Radical Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General