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Postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked through the spatiality of colonial discourse as well as the material effects of colonialism and decolonisation. Geographical ideas about space, place, landscape, and location have helped to articulate different experiences of colonialism both in the past and present and the 'here' and 'there'. At the same time, whilst spatial images such as mobility, margins and exile abound in postcolonial writings, more material geographies have often been overlooked. This title presents a sustained geographical analysis of postcolonialism. Exploring and developing the connections between postcolonialism and geography, the essays in this book - ranging across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North America - investigate the geographies of postcolonialism and chart the contours of a postcolonial geography. Contributors include: Morag Bell, Claire Dwyer, Haydie Gooder, Jane M. Jacobs, M. Satish Kumar, Alan Lester, Mark McGuinness, Karen M. Morin, Richard Phillips, Marcus Power, Jenny Robinson, James D. Sidaway, and John Wylie.
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Postcolonial Geographies
ALISON BLUNT CHERYL MCEWAN, Editors
Continuum
POSTCOLONIAL GEOGRAPHIES
WRITING PAST COLONIALISM
Series Editor: Phillip Darby, University of Melbourne The leitmotif of the series is the idea of difference - differences between culture and politics, as well as differences in ways of seeing and the sources that can be drawn upon. In this sense, the series is postcolonial. Yet the space the series opens up is one resistant to new orthodoxies, one that allows for alternative and contesting formulations. Though grounded in studies relating to the formerly colonized world, the series will also extend contemporary global analysis. Books in the series: The Fiction of Imperialism Phillip Darby Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology Patrick Wolfe
POSTCOLONIAL GEOGRAPHIES
ED I T E D ALISON
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BLUNT
CHERYL
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continuum NEW YORK • LONDON
Continuum The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX 370 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6503 First published 2002 © Alison Blunt, Cheryl McEwan and die contributors 2002 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-8264-6082-8 (hardback) 0-8264-6083-6 (paperback)
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations Introduction Alison Blunt and Cheryl McEwan
PART I
Introduction to Part I POSTCOLONIAL GEOGRAPHIES Survey—explore—review James D. Sidaway 2 CONSTRUCTING COLONIAL DISCOURSE Britain, South Africa and the Empire in the nineteenth century Alan Lester 3 IMPERIALISM, SEXUALITY AND SPACE Purity Movements in the British Empire Richard Phillips 4 INQUIRIES AS POSTCOLONIAL DEVICES The Carnegie Corporation and poverty in South Africa Morag Bell
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URBAN ORDER, CITIZENSHIP AND SPECTACLE
Introduction to Part II THE EVOLUTION OF SPATIAL ORDERING IN COLONIAL MADRAS M. Satish Kumar 6 GEOGRAPHIES WITH A DIFFERENCE? Citizenship and difference in postcolonial urban spaces Mark McGuinness 7 (POST)COLONIAL GEOGRAPHIES AT JOHANNESBURG'S EMPIRE EXHIBITION, 1936 Jenny Robinson 8 EXPLODING THE MYTH OF PORTUGAL'S 'MARITIME DESTINY' A postcolonial voyage through EXPO '98 Marcus Power 5
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