Colonial and global interfacing : imperial hegemonies and democratizing resistances /

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Imprint:[Oxford] ; [New York] : Cambridge Scholars Publ, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (xxix, 280 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283673
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Other authors / contributors:Backhaus, Gary, 1953-
Murungi, John, 1943-
ISBN:9781443809313
1443809314
9781847182968
1847182968
1282192914
9781282192911
9786612192913
6612192917
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Summary:How space is owned through practices of domination that emerged through colonialism and have been sustained through capitalist social relations in a 'post-colonial' context. How Imperial power created, in Foucault's words, a 'boomerang effect' whereby the techniques developed to control and subjugate colonial subjects worked Other such efficiency that they were imported back into Western societies to create new orders of control. How while new social movements such as the Zapatistas have remapped the rural and developed new ways to challenge and transform politics, Western societies have sou.
Other form:Print version: Colonial and global interfacing. [Oxford ; New York] : Cambridge Scholars Publ, 2007 9781847182968