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Postcolonial Critique after Posthumanism

Postcolonial Critique after Posthumanism

Sensing Other Life and the Problem of Ontology

by Mark Jackson
Paperback
Publication Date: 12/01/2016

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Postcolonial studies have transformed critical thinking in the humanities and social sciences. But its anthropocentrism ignores the more-than-human worlds that are hugely important to many indigenous cultures. How can the field move forwards in order to better understand ideas of materiality and the non-human? This is the first book that brings together emerging, influential and interdisciplinary work on posthumanism to advance postcolonial research. The text explores advances around the concepts of political ontology and posthumanism to show how postcolonial studies can draw further on work from geography, anthropology, politics, literature, and indigenous studies. Bridging the gap that has emerged between innovative theoretical and empirical demands, and the insufficient conceptual means of orthodox postcolonialism, it proposes new trajectories through which to advance postcolonial scholarship, even seeking to radicalize it in the process. The book will also address how relational and posthumanist approaches can themselves learn from postcolonial histories, and so respond effectively to ongoing legacies of contemporary injustice.
ISBN:
9781783484676
9781783484676
Category:
Anthropology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12-01-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4mm
Mark Jackson

Mark Jackson is an illustrator based in Melbourne. He has co-illustrated several books with his wife, Heather Potter, and their work has been featured in several exhibitions.

Mark has several titles published by Walker Books Australia: The Truth About Penguins written by Meg McKinlay, 2010; Not Like Georgie written by Scott Hatcher, 2009; and Stuck! written by Charlotte Calder, 2009, which was short-listed in the Young Children Category of the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2010, and received a Notable mention in the Picture Book Category, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, 2010.

Platypus, published in 2015 and a part of the award-winning Nature Storybook series, was a Notable Book at the CBCA Book of the Year Awards in 2016 and was also short-listed for the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature in the same year.

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