Postcolonialism and Development

This book provides a valuable and unique introductory text that explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial approaches and their implications for development studies.

Dr. Cheryl McEwan is Reader in Human Geography at Durham University. Her main research interests include the geographies of citizenship, democracy and transformation in South Africa, the lived experiences of postcoloniality in the global North and South and the role of postcolonial theory within social science research. She is author of Gender, Geography and Empire (2000) and co-editor or Postcolonial Geographies (2002), currently Editor (Development Section) of Geography Compass, a new online journal, and a member of the Editorial Board of the RGS-IBG/Blackwell Book Series.

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xi
List of boxes	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
List of acronyms	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The origins of postcolonialism	p. 34
Postcolonial theory and development	p. 77
Discourses of development and the power of representation	p. 120
Development knowledge and power	p. 165
Agency in development	p. 210
Towards a postcolonial development agenda	p. 249
Conclusions	p. 298
Bibliography	p. 320
Index	p. 347
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