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Reconciliation and Pedagogy
Series: Postcolonial Politics
Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts examine the links between reconciliation and critical pedagogy, putting forward the...
Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Violence and Non-Violence in Africa
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This unique volume seeks both to historicize and to deconstruct the pervasive, almost ritualistic, association of Africa with forms of terrorism as well as extreme violence, the latter bordering on and including genocide. Africa is tendentiously associated with violence in the popular and academic...
Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Out of Africa
Post-Structuralism's Colonial Roots
Series: Postcolonial Politics
At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong ‘colonial’ connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence. The ‘biographical’ fact that so many French intellectuals were born in or otherwise connected with French...
Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
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Edward Said
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation. Looking at the context and the...
Published October 15th 2008 by Routledge
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Edward Said
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies.This volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism. These...
Published December 20th 2000 by Routledge
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Politics and Post-Colonial Theory
African Inflections
This groundbreaking book makes sense of the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial politics, illustrating how post-colonial theory has marginalised a huge part of its constituency, namely Africa.Politics and Post-Colonial Theory traces how African identity has been constituted and reconstituted...
Published November 22nd 2000 by Routledge