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
Subject:	Postcolonialism. Colonization. Imperialism. Colonization. Imperialism. Postcolonialism. Electronic books.
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.

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