Decolonising Governance - Archipelagic Thinking

Informationen zum Autor Author of the acclaimed The Road to Botany Bay, an essay in spatial history , Paul Carter’s more recent books include Dark Writing, geography, performance, design (2008), Meeting Place, the human encounter and the challenge of coexistence (2013) and Places Made After Their Stories, design and the art of choreotopography (2015). Also a poet, his collection Ecstacies and Elegies was published in 2013. Through his design studio Material Thinking he has made signal contributions to the public art and design of Federation Square (Melbourne) and Yagan Square (Perth). Paul Carter is Professor of Design/Urbanism at the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University . Zusammenfassung Taking the forgotten or marginalized cultural/intellectual histories and geographies of the archipelago as its theme, this volume drives forward current discussions about the changing relationship between governance and democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Exchange rates: figuring the archipelago 2. From your own seashore: a philosophical geography 3. Ocean connections: local knowledge and regions of care 4. Affiliations after the flood: archipelagic poetics 5. Overflow: a model for culture-based regional development 6. Bacan: biodiversity in the anarchipelago Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Carter, Paul Carter, Paul (Rmit University Carter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780815380498
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8049-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Postcolonial Politics; Postcolonial Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political science and theory