Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City

Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City
ISBN-10
1134810857
ISBN-13
9781134810857
Series
Edge of Empire
Category
Social Science
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2002-09-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Jane M. Jacobs

Description

Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society. From London, the one-time heart of the empire, to Perth and Brisbane, scenes of Aboriginal claims for the sacred in the space of the modern city, Jacobs emphasises the global geography of the local and unravels the spatialised cultural politics of postcolonial processes. Edge of Empire forms the basis for understanding imperialism over space and time, and is a recognition of the unruly spatial politics of race and nation, nature and culture, past and present.

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