Introduction 1. Negritude and Nativism: In Search of Identity 2. Decolonisation National Liberation 3. Modernity the Problem Nation-State 4. Striving for Democratisation: The Complexities Civil Society Human Rights 5. Citizenship, Subjectivity Crisis 6. Globalisation Post-Colonialism: Towards Reconstitution 7. Conclusion

Edward Said is one of the most important literary, political and cultural theorists contemporary world. But until now no has attempted to assess explain significance his journalism scholarship in accessible full-length volume. In this refreshingly clear timely introduction work, Bill Ashcroft Pal Ahluwalia set out key tenets position context which work emerges. Whilst acknowledging crucial importance best-known paradigm shifting early Orientalism , they unravel for first time vital part...

1. Introduction 2. Algeria and Colonisation 3. Sartre, Camus Fanon 4. Derrida 5. Cixous 6. Althusser, Bourdieu, Foucault Lyotard 7. Conclusion

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(2001). When Does a Settler Become Native? Citizenship and Identity in Society. Pretexts: Literary Cultural Studies: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 63-73.

The second half of 2016 has been laden with disastrous headlines for social democrats. It started white English and Welsh workers suburban village homeowners electing to depart the European Union...

This article argues that ‘Asia’ has tended to function as an ambivalent ‘sign’ in Australian political discourse, signifying both fear and hope. That ambivalence is reflected government policy. The focuses on the period from Gough Whitlam on, tracing links between debates over relations with Asia key issues domestic politics, including immigration, economy national identity. Key differences are identified views of John Howard those recent Labor Prime Ministers. However, it pointed out Kevin...

This paper examines the overwhelming desire of transnational adoptees to establish a connection with their origins in order both come terms past and develop an understanding identity. It considers ethical ramifications commodification human bodies. is suggested that idea displacement most helpful approaching questions adoption. In this way, we can look at adoption as 'beginning'—one disappears into present moment, becoming constitutive reality underlying Derrida's concern displacement—rather...

Post-colonial theory is many different things to people. It serves purposes. drawn from the unique conditions which its adherents inhabit and experiences upon they draw. For commentators, Michel Foucault at heart of post-colonial thinking or, very least, his work contributes embedding post-structural in post-colonial. But there an alternative reading, closer analysis demonstrates how relationship between can be read as inverse one embeds post-structuralism beginning. Looking range that were...

In Australia there has been a great deal of discussion in recent years something called ‘political correctness’. This term is an insidious phrase applied to academic humanists, who, it frequently said, do not think independently but rather according norms established by cabal ‘correct‐thinking’ leftists. These are supposed be overly sensitive racism, sexism and the like, instead allowing people debate what ‘open’ manner (Said 1994:58). article asks why witnessed backlash against correctness’...

(2001). Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko: Towards Liberation. Social Identities: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 455-469.

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1The photographs reproduced in this article are all from Chris Ledochowski's, Cape Flats Details: Life and Culture the Townships of Town (Pretoria: SAHO University South Africa Press, 2003). 2It is important note that District Six has come symbolise excesses brutalities apartheid state particular Group Areas Act. But impact on other areas such as Mowbray Claremont should not be underestimated. 3What remarkable about Diepen's edited...

The world of Antiquity and Middle Ages was replete with monsters satyrs. Modernity civilisation is shadowed by monstrous figures that constitute ‘the abject’ ‘discontent’. This paper examines the question representation manner in which figure monster reappears after events 9/11. It discusses way production about other has been disciplined policed offers some reflections on theory order to consider how a post-colonial ethical stance might offer better engage non-coercive knowledge.

This paper was first delivered as the keynote address at 'Transnational Punjabis in 21st Century: Beginnings, Junctures and Responses' Conference held May 2011 University of Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. It argues that there are two dimensions to evolving Sikh diasporic identities firmly anchored being home whilst motion. These rooted culture dharam. The ways which travels evolves is illustrative post-colonial transformations largely dependent on host well product part...

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