The learned editors of this new four-volume collection from Routledge argue that—at its core—postcolonialism makes two substantial claims, with corresponding research agendas and political implications. First, that the emergence and functioning of the modern world cannot be truly understood and explained as if it originated in Europe and was then ‘exported’ to the non-West; such Eurocentric accounts must be interrogated and challenged. Second, that since the humanities and social sciences developed in Europe, as an attempt to make sense of Western developments, the analytical tools and disciplinary formations by which we seek to explain and represent the world also need to be critically questioned, and where necessary, rethought.
This timely new collection from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Political Science series enables users to comprehend the scope and ambition of these claims, and to make sense of the dizzying diversity of texts, generated across different continents and in different languages, and spanning numerous fields of intellectual and literary endeavour, that constitute the formative and central works of Postcolonial Politics. The four volumes that make up the collection are edited by the directors of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and unite the expertise of three distinguished scholars who have produced a unique ‘mini library’ that is as diverse as its subject matter. Postcolonial Politics brings together foundational and cutting-edge essays and journal articles, and it draws on sources from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as those in the Western world, including some newly translated pieces.
Fully indexed and with new introductions to each volume, this collection will be welcomed by scholars, other researchers, and advanced students as an indispensable reference and pedagogic resource.
Volume 1: The Social World
Part 1. Anthropology
1. Edward W. Said, ‘Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors’, Critical Inquiry 15, 2,1989, 205–25.
2. David Scott, ‘Criticism and Culture: Theory and Post-Colonial Claims on Anthropological Disciplinarity’, Critique of Anthropology 12, 4, 1992, 371–94.
3. Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. ‘Ethnography on an Awkward Scale: Postcolonial Anthropology and the Violence of Abstraction’, Ethnography 4, 2, 2003, 147–79.
4. Johannes Fabian, ‘Time and the Emerging Other’, in Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp. 1–36.
Part 2. Sociology
5. Sanjay Seth, ‘Historical Sociology and Postcolonial Theory: Two Strategies for Challenging Eurocentrism’, International Political Sociology 3, 3, 2009, 334–38.
6. Julian Go, ‘For a Postcolonial Sociology’, Theory and Society 42, 1, 2013, 25–55.
7. José H. Bortoluci and Robert S. Jansen, ‘Toward a Postcolonial Sociology: The View from Latin America’, in Julian Go (ed.), Postcolonial Sociology (Bingley: Emerald, 2013), pp. 199–229.
8. George Steinmetz, ‘The Sociology of Empires, Colonies, and Postcolonialism’, Annual Review of Sociology 40, 2014, 77–103.
9. Gurminder K. Bhambra, ‘Sociology and Postcolonialism: Another "Missing" Revolution?’ Sociology 41, 5, 2007, 871–884.
10. Raewyn Connell, ‘Decolonizing Sociology’, Contemporary Sociology 47, 4, 2018, 399–407.
Part 3. Media
11. Mark Poster, ‘Postcolonial Theory in the Age of Planetary Communications’, Quarterly Review of Film and Video 24, 4, 2007, 379–93.
12. Arvind Rajagopal, ‘Notes on Postcolonial Visual Culture’, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 2, 1, 2011, 11–22.
13. Raka Shome, ‘When Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies’, Critical Studies in Media Communication 33, 3, 2016, 245–63.
14. Sangeet Kumar and Radhika Parameswaran, ‘Charting an Itinerary for Postcolonial Communication and Media Studies’, Journal of Communication 68, 2, 2018, 347–58.
Part 4. Law
15. Kimberle Crenshaw, ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics’, University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989, 1, 1989, 139–67.
16. Peter Fitzpatrick, ‘"No Higher Duty": Mabo and the Failure of Legal Foundation’, Law and Critique 13, 3, 2002, 233–52.
17. Denise Ferreira Da Silva, ‘No-Bodies: Law, Raciality and Violence’, Griffith Law Review 18, 2, 2009, 212–36.
18. Brenna Bhandar, ‘Title by Registration: Instituting Modern Property Law and Creating Racial Value in the Settler Colony’, Journal of Law and Society 42, 2, 2015, 253–82.
Volume 2: Politics of Space and The City
Part 5. International Relations and Geopolitics
19. Sankaran Krishna, ‘Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 26, 4, 2001, 401–24.
20. Robbie Shilliam, ‘A Fanonian Critique of Lebow’s A Cultural Theory of International Relations’, Millennium 38, 1, 2009, 117–36.
21. Sanjay Seth, ‘Postcolonial Theory and the Critique of International Relations’, Millennium 40, 1, 2011, 167–83.
22. Gurminder K. Bhambra, ‘Historical Sociology, International Relations and Connected Histories’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 23, 1, 2010, 127–43.
23. Ashis Nandy and Phillip Darby, ‘International Relations as Variations on Everyday Human Relations’, Postcolonial Studies 18, 2, 2015, 103–14.
24. Zeynep Gulsah Capan, ‘Decolonising International Relations?’, Third World Quarterly 38, 1, 2017, 1–15.
25. Karen Tucker, ‘Unraveling Coloniality in International Relations: Knowledge, Relationality, and Strategies for Engagement’, International Political Sociology 12, 3, 2018, 215–32.
Part 6. Geography and Cartography
26. James D. Sidaway, ‘Postcolonial Geographies: An Exploratory Essay’, Progress in Human Geography 24, 4, 2000, 591–612.
27. Catherine Nash, ‘Cultural Geography: Postcolonial Cultural Geographies’, Progress in Human Geography 26, 2, 2002, 219–30.
28. Cheryl McEwan, ‘Material Geographies and Postcolonialism’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 24, 3, 2003, 340–55.
29. Mary Gilmartin & Lawrence D. Berg, ‘Locating Postcolonialism’, Area 39, 1, 2007, 120-124.
30. Jeff Oliver, ‘On Mapping and its Afterlife: Unfolding Landscapes in Northwestern North America’, World Archaeology, 43, 1 2011, 66-85.
31. Pat Noxolo, Parvati Raghuram and Clare Madge, ‘Unsettling Responsibility: Postcolonial Interventions’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37, 3, 2012, 418–29.
32. Sarah A. Radcliffe, ‘Decolonising Geographical Knowledges’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geography 42, 3, 2017, 329–33.
Part 7. Urban Studies
33. Arjun Appadurai, ‘Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai’, Public Culture 12, 3, 2000, 627–51.
34. Ravi Sundaram, ‘Uncanny Networks: Pirate, Urban and New Globalisation’, Economic and Political Weekly 39, 1, 2004, 64–71.
35. Mona Domosh, ‘Postcolonialism and the American City’, Urban Geography 25, 8, 2004, 742–54.
36. Eyal Weizman, ‘Evacuations: De-Colonizing Architecture’, in Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (London: Verso Books, 2007), pp. 221–36.
37. Bill Ashcroft, ‘Urbanism, Mobility and Bombay: Reading the Postcolonial City’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47, 5, 2011, 497–509.
38. AbdouMaliq Simone, ‘A Town on Its Knees? Economic Experimentations with Postcolonial Urban Politics in Africa and Southeast Asia’, Theory, Culture & Society 27, 7–8, 2011, 130–54.
39. Claire Chambers and Graham Huggan, ‘Reevaluating the Postcolonial City: Production, Reconstruction, Representation’, Interventions 17, 6, 2015, 783–88.
40. Bobby Benedicto, ‘The Queer Afterlife of the Postcolonial City: (Trans)Gender Performance and the War of Beautification’, Antipode 47, 3, 2015, 580–97.
Volume 3: Interrogating the Past
Part 8. History
41. Homi K. Bhabha, ‘In a Spirit of Calm Violence’, in Prakash Gyan (ed.), After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), pp. 326–44.
42. Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts’, Scrutiny2 3, 1, 1998, 4-15.
43. Sara Castro-Klaren, ‘Literacy, Conquest and Interpretation: Breaking New Ground on the Records of the Past’, Social History 23, 2, 1998, 133–45.
44. Iain Chambers, ‘History after Humanism: Responding to Postcolonialism’, Postcolonial Studies 2, 1, 1999, 37–42.
45. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, ‘North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492–1945’, South Atlantic Quarterly 101, 4, 2002, 839–58.
46. Sanjay Seth, ‘Reason or Reasoning? Clio or Siva?’, Social Text 22, 1, 2004, 85–101.
Part 9. Archaeology and Classics
47. Peter Van Dommelen, ‘Postcolonial Archaeologies between Discourse and Practice’, World Archaeology 43, 1, 2011, 1–6.
48. Yannis Hamilakis, ‘Decolonizing Greek Archaeology: Indigenous Archaeologies, Modernist Archaeology and the Post-Colonial Critique’, in Dimitris Damaskos and Dimitris Plantzos (eds), A Singular Antiquity: Archaeology and Hellenic Identity in Twentieth-Century Greece (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2008), pp. 273–84.
49. George Nicholas & Julie Hollowell, ‘Ethical Challenges to a Postcolonial Archaeology: The Legacy of Scientific Colonialism’, in Yannis Hamilakis & Philip Duke (eds), Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 59–82.
50. Uzama Z. Rizvi, ‘Archaeological Encounters: The Role of the Speculative in Decolonial Archaeology’, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 6, 1, 2019, 154–67.
51. Francisco Carballo, ‘Niklas Luhmann as a Theorist of Exclusion: A Journey from the Greek Polis to the Brazilian Favelas’, Transtext(e)s transcultures 14, 2020.
Part 10. Museums
52. Timothy Mitchell, ‘Orientalism and The Exhibitionary Order’, in Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago (eds), Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (Hants: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 409–23.
53. Irit Rogoff, ‘Hit and Run—Museums and Cultural Difference’, Art Journal 61, 3, 2002, 63–73.
54. James Clifford, ‘Quai Branly in Process’, October 120, 2007, 3–23.
55. Robert Aldrich, ‘Colonial Museums in a Postcolonial Europe’, African and Black Diaspora 2, 2, 2009, 137–56.
56. Carol Ann Dixon, ‘Decolonising the Museum: Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration’, Race & Class 53, 4, 2012, 78–86.
57. Sandra J. Schmidt, ‘Fabricating a Nation: The Function of National Museums in Nonracial Re-presentation and the National Imagination’, Museum Management and Curatorship 28, 3, 2013, 288–306.
Part 11. Language
58. Édouard Glissant, ‘People and Language’, in Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, `1989), pp. 248–51.
59. Audre Lorde, ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’, in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 1984), pp. 110–14.
60. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, ‘Decolonising the Mind’, Diogenes 46, 184, 1998, 101–4.
61. Doris Sommer, ‘A Vindication of Double Consciousness’, in Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray (eds), A Companion to Postcolonial Studies (New York: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 165–79.
62. Achille Mbembe, ‘African Modes of Self-Writing’, Public Culture 14, 1, 2002, 239–73.
63. Emmanuel Chukuwudi Eze, ‘Language and Time in Postcolonial Experience’, Research in African Literatures 39, 1, 2008, 24–47.
64. E. San. Juan Jr., ‘The "Field" of English in the Cartography of Globalization’, Philippine Studies 52, 1, 2004, 94–118.
Volume 4: The Politics of Knowledge
Part 12. Science and Technology
65. David Dumoulin Kervran, Mina Kleiche-Dray and Mathieu Quet, ‘Going South. How STS Could Think Science in and with the South?’, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 1, 1, 2018, 280–305.
66. Warwick Anderson, ‘Postcolonial Ecologies of Parasite and Host: Making Parasitism Cosmopolitan’, Journal of the History of Biology 49, 2, 2016, 241–59.
67. Sandra Harding, ‘Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology: Convergences and Dissonances’, Postcolonial Studies 12, 4, 2009, 401–21.
68. Kapil Raj, ‘Beyond Postcolonialism . . . and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science’, Isis 104, 2, 2013, 337–47.
69. Richard Rottenburg, ‘Social and Public Experiments and New Figurations of Science and Politics in Postcolonial Africa’, Postcolonial Studies 12, 4, 2009, 423–40.
70. Suman Seth, ‘Colonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies’, Radical History Review 2017, 127, 2017, 63–85.
Part 13. Universities
71. Gloria E. Anzaldúa, ‘Now Let Us Shift the Path of Conocimiento . . . Inner Work, Public Acts’, in Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating (eds), This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 540–78.
72. ‘Rhodes Must Fall Mission Statements’, Johannesburg Salon 9, 2015, 6–19,
73. Achille Joseph Mbembe, ‘Decolonizing the University: New Directions’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 15, 1, 2016, 29–45.
74. Michae A. Peters, ‘Manifesto for the Postcolonial University’, Educational Philosophy and Theory 51, 2, 2019, 142–48.
Part 14. Feminism
75. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism’, Critical Inquiry 12, 1, 1985, 243–61.
76. Chandra Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’, Feminist Review 30, 1, 1988, 61–88.
77. Partha Chatterjee, ‘Nationalism and Colonized Women: The Contest in India’, American Ethnologist 16, 4, 1989, 622-633.
78. Leela Gandhi, ‘Postcolonialism and Feminism’, in Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), pp. 81–101.
Part 15. Politics of Knowledge
79. Edward W. Said, ‘The Politics of Knowledge’, Raritan 11, 1, 1991, 17–31.
80. Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘The Politics and Possibility of Historical Knowledge: Continuing the Conversation’, Postcolonial Studies 14, 2, 2011, 243–50.
81. Boaventura De Sousa Santos, ‘A Non-Occidentalist West? Learned Ignorance and Ecology of Knowledge’, Theory, Culture & Society 26, 7–8, 2009, 103–25.
82. Tariq Jazeel and Colin McFarlane, ‘The Limits of Responsibility: A Postcolonial Politics of Academic Knowledge Production’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, 1, 2010, 109–24.
83. Walter D. Mignolo, ‘Spirit out of Bounds Returns to the East: The Closing of the Social Sciences and the Opening of Independent Thoughts’, Current Sociology 62, 4, 2014, 584–602.
84. Lewis R. Gordon, ‘Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonisation of Knowledge’, Africa Development/Afrique et développement 39, 1, 2014, 81–92.
85. Sanjay Seth, ‘"Once Was Blind but Now Can See": Modernity and the Social Sciences’, International Political Sociology 7, 2, 2013, 136–51.
Biography
Dr Francisco Carballo, Lecturer in the Politics and Cultures of Latin America, Department of Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Sanjay Seth, Professor of Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Dr David Martin, Lecturer in Visual and International Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
