“…One of the reasons I often revisit this encounter is that, for me, a particularly useful strand of postcolonial geography over the last few years has been the development of ideas on how Europe‐ and North America‐based scholars working on countries in the global south might postcolonialize their disciplinary geographical praxis (see Crush, 1993; McEwan, 1998; Myers, 2001; Yeung, 2001; Raju, 2002; 2006; Slater, 2002; Robinson, 2003a;Berg, 2004; Noxolo, 2006; Raghuram & Madge, 2006). Perhaps most notably, in the pages of this journal a few years ago, Jennifer Robinson (2003b) had an instructive paper that sets out a useful transformative agenda for generating a more ‘cosmopolitan theoretical project’ within the discipline of geography; as she calls it, a way of ‘postcolonialising geography’.…”