1st Edition
Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire Marketing Development
By April Biccum
Copyright 2010
218 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April Biccum critically examines the ways in which development in its current form has recently begun to... Read more
1. A Shift in Vocabulary 2. By the Logic of a Rupture 3. Marketing Development: A ‘New’ National Narrative 4. Authorised Versions of ‘Otherness’: Creating Imperial Subjects Abroad 5. Marketing Empire: Creating Imperial Subject at Home 6. Gender and Development, Women Mark the Borders of Civility 7. Toward the Conscious Exploitation of Ambivalence
Biography
April Biccum is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on bringing post-colonial theory into the domain of political theory and the politics of development.
