Coloniality, Ontology, and the Question of the Posthuman

Traces critical implications and potentials of political ecology and posthumanism for diverse forms of postcolonial critique. Analysis is developed through international cases, from city spaces in the Global North & South, food politics & colonial land use, representation, nation building, the Anthropocene, materiality and indigenous wor

List of contents

Introduction: a critical bridging exercise Mark Jackson. 1. For new ecologies of thought: towards decolonizing critique. Mark Jackson. 2. Anti-colonial ontologies – a dialogue. Angela Last. 3. Chronic carriers: creole pigs, postplantation politics, and disturbing agrarian ontologies in Haiti. Sophie Moore. 4. Terra plena: revisiting contemporary agrarian struggles in Central America through a "full earth" perspective. Naomi Millner. 5. Refracting colonialism in Canada: fish tales, text, and insistent public grief. Zoe Todd. 6. Unsettling the urban geographies of settler-colonial cities: aporetic encounters with the spatiotemporal dynamics of modern logic. Delacey Tedesco. 7. "Well, City Boy Rangoon, it’s time to stitch up the evening": material, meaning, and Man in the (post)colonial city. Lisa Tilley. 8. Ethno-linguistic cartographies as colonial embodiment in postcolonial Sri Lanka. Chitra Jayathilake. 9. Immanent comparisons and the perception of the post-human in the filmic sensorium of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Carlo Bonura. 10. Political ontology and international relations: politics, self-estrangement, and void universalism in a pluriverse. Hans-Martin Jaeger

About the author

Mark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Summary

Traces critical implications and potentials of political ecology and posthumanism for diverse forms of postcolonial critique. Analysis is developed through international cases, from city spaces in the Global North & South, food politics & colonial land use, representation, nation building, the Anthropocene, materiality and indigenous wor

Product details

• Authors: Mark Jackson, Mark (University of Exeter Jackson
• Assisted by: Mark Jackson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367872786
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87278-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Human Geography, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence