Development and geography: towards a postcolonial development geography?

Radcliffe, Sarah A.

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“…Gregory's (2004) fascination with the Middle East, particularly the injustices visited upon Muslim peoples by Western powers, has been central to this project. Postcolonialism continues to inform efforts to understand differential trajectories of regional development and the goals and strategies that inspire them (Radcliffe, 2005).…”

Section: Cultural Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Space and Social Theory in Geography

Warf¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Social theory and the analysis of spatiality have a long and rich history. Building on earlier traditions such as Marxism, feminism, and humanistic geography, this article addresses the major lines of conceptual thought in human geography in the early twenty-first century. It encompasses the discipline's major theoretical constructs under the broad umbrella of social constructivism and political economy, largely based on the work of Foucault. These precepts serve as a guide to the role and impacts of various forms of social theory in the analysis of multiple topics, including cultural geography, critical political geography, economic geography, the geographies of cyberspace, critical cartography, and GIS, and the social construction of nature.

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Section: Cultural Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Space and Social Theory in Geography

Warf¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…The contemporary debate regarding colonial legacies, postcolonial theory, and developmental practice has been well summarised in a series of recent papers (Briggs and Sharp, 2004;Power et al, 2006;Radcliffe, 2005;Simon, 2006;Sylvester, 1999). What these papers illustrate is that, while postcolonial and development studies have traditionally worked apart, there is a great deal of common ground between them.…”

Section: Spatial and Temporal (Dis)continuities: Colonialism And Devementioning

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Ordinary Urban Spaces: Between Postcolonialism and Development

Legg

McFarlane

2008

Environ Plan A

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IntroductionThis theme issue on the``Ordinary spaces of modernity'' arose from a conference event that sought to bring together scholars interested in how the contingencies and ambivalences of urban space mattered for how different actors engaged in`improving' or developing others'. Our rationale for this event was motivated in part by a double notion of parochialism. On the one hand, we sought to emphasise the importance of the parochial, of the tensions and ambivalences of municipal officials, and of the role of everyday materialities of construction or infrastructure, for the nature and contestation of improvement and development. On the other hand, we sought to do this by disrupting what has come to be criticised as a certain parochialism in urban studies, and in particular the tendency to make generalisations of`non-Western' urban forms, or to conceptually separate the`Western city' from the`Third World city ' (cf Bishop et al, 2003;King, 2004;McFarlane, 2006a;Robinson, 2006). We sought papers that illustrated the importance of connections and comparisons temporally, between colonialism and development, and spatially, between`Western' and`Southern' urbanism. We hope that, in tracing a range of contextual tensions and translations, the collection charts a diversity of temporal and spatial continuities and discontinuities. Legg, Perera, and Harris focus on colonial contexts in India, Sri Lanka, and a variety of African contexts, and Gandy, McFarlane, and Robinson are concerned with contemporary urban spaces in India and South Africa.At a general level, the collection illustrates the possibilities of comparative urban research. In particular, it demonstrates how attentiveness to the connections between ordinary urban spaces across time and space demands that postcolonial and development scholarshipöso often divergent in their objects and forms of analysis (Power et al, 2006;Simon, 2006;Sylvester, 1999)öbe brought into dialogue (Briggs and Sharp, 2004;Legg, 2006;McFarlane, 2006b). Such a dialogue helps make sense, for example, of how the historical and contemporary relationalities of urban space, the mixing of thè here' and`there', inform the practices of urban government on issues as diverse as planning, housing and infrastructural provision, congestion, and the production of city development strategies. In this sense, we wish to locate the ordinary urban spaces featured in this issue between development and postcolonialism. In order to explore the collective contribution of this issue for thinking comparatively across urban space, this introduction is framed around two broad central themes that are engaged in the theme issue. These themes consider the issue's contribution to debates at the intersection between urban studies, development, and postcolonialism around, first, the relations between modernity, development, and the city, and second, on spatial and temporal (dis)continuity. Modernity, development, and the cityIn demonstrating a variety of ways in which urban space becomes a key site for the producti...

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“…Addressing matters like identity and ethnicity, and concerning processes of "systematic exploitation and Othering of ethnically or spatially distinct populations in postcolonial states" (Radcliffe, 2005:295) -which Scott (2009 refers to as "internal colonialism" -postcolonialism presents a useful approach for indigenous studies. In most Latin American countries, a majority population of European origin has been able to impose its sociocultural system on a subjugated indigenous population.…”

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Appropriating "modernization" – indigenous anti-hegemonic resistance in the Argentine Chaco

Weißermel

2014

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. The incorporation of indigenous territories into the Argentine Republic must be considered as a complex process of colonization which encompassed space, the word and the body. It enabled the dominant settler society to establish socioeconomic and sociocultural hegemony. The example of the Toba community in Clorinda elucidates the extent to which hegemonic worldviews have infiltrated their self-perception and produced the barrio (urban district) and the campo (rural area), as two places infiltrated with symbolisms and ideology. Through a postcolonial perspective, this article aims to examine the way the community deals with this "modernization", as the Toba themselves call the process. It is pointed out that, by appropriating the hegemony's logic, the Toba actively create spaces of resistance in order to maintain or regain self-determination. Discussing indigenous alternative concepts of modernity, this article advocates a greater consideration of those diverse social realities in the scope of Western development geography.

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Development and geography: towards a postcolonial development geography?

Cited by 108 publications

References 29 publications

Space and Social Theory in Geography

Space and Social Theory in Geography

Ordinary Urban Spaces: Between Postcolonialism and Development

Appropriating "modernization" – indigenous anti-hegemonic resistance in the Argentine Chaco

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Development and geography: towards a postcolonial development geography?

Cited by 108 publications

References 29 publications

Space and Social Theory in Geography

Space and Social Theory in Geography

Ordinary Urban Spaces: Between Postcolonialism and Development

Appropriating &quot;modernization&quot; – indigenous anti-hegemonic resistance in the Argentine Chaco

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