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
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Forming the interface model / Gary Backhaus
  • Part I: Historical generation of interfacing phenomena
  • Mapping the world for God and profit : the global vision of early modern cartography / Christine M. Petto
  • A kind of globalization : merchant capital, primitive accumulation, and the reconfiguration of world space in the maps of Herman Moll, 1700-1730 / Alex Zukas
  • Topografia dominium : property, divided sovereignty, and the spaces of rule / Chad Kautzer
  • Part II: Interfacing phenomena of the processes of globalization and colonialization
  • The American archipelago : the global circuit of carcerality and torture / Brady Thomas Heiner
  • Born in the country, easy to rule? : mapping the dirt road of revolution / Samuel A. Butler
  • Deprovincializing the subaltern : how the rest globalizes the West / Celina María Bragagnolo
  • Atopia, utopia, dystopia : globalization's cartographies / Eduardo Mandieta
  • Part III: The global/colonial interface in place-contexts
  • Colonial and global tension in cultural identity formation : the geopolitics of "Sing-lish" in Singapore / Janine Chi
  • The interface between colonialization and globalization : the rise of socialism in Africa : 1900-1949 / Lorna Lueker Zukas
  • Connecting the dots : colonialism and globalization in Western Micronesia / RDK Herman.