Colonial And Post-colonial Geographies of India - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761934367 ISBN 13 : 9780761934363

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 2006

Synopsis

This collection of original essays by scholars of geography from India, Western Europe and the US provides important insights into the way in which contemporary geographers are engaging with India. The earlier narrow colonial focus that sought to map India as a country of `resources` and ‘peoples’ (tribes and castes) has now been discarded for a broader view located in mainstream intellectual frameworks and informed by a public policy perspective. This volume highlights how contemporary geographers ‘see’ and write on colonial and post-colonial themes such as the state, nation, community, environment and division of labour, while keeping in mind issues of spatiality and territoriality.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book brings together original contributions by geographers from India, Western Europe and the United States. It provides important insights into the way contemporary geographers engage with broader intellectual traditions, departing from the earlier narrow economic focus.

The volume highlights how geographers `see' and write on topics such as the state, nation, community, environment and division of labour, while keeping in mind issues of place-making, spatiality and territoriality.

Among the diverse issues dealt with are:

- spatial idioms, the use of symbols and colours, and the production of identifiable neighborhoods in the 17th and 18th century in the city of Madras;

- the importance of the concept of home and domestic space for forging nationalist politics in the context of Anglo-Indian women in India before and after 1947;

- the diverse and imaginative ways in which members of the Sangh Parivar have sought to reinvent India as Hindustan;

- how the Kashmir problem cannot be understood except through the lens of geopolitics;

- the complex and nuanced ways in which the global and local are interwoven;

- the unsatisfactory efforts made by some NGOs to deal with the impact of globalisation in Mumbai's slums;

- the emerging regional geographies of industrialization in India with reference to the info-tech sector;

- how the remaking of Delhi was influenced by colonial forms of government;

- issues of urban sustainability and middle class environmentalism. (20080529)

Revue de presse

"Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India offers a good introduction to and basis for rethinking the ways in which academics theorize and teach the geographies of peoples, places, and regions."
-Economic Geography (Haripriya Rangan Economic Geography ) --Economic Geography

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761934367
• ISBN 13: 9780761934363
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Éditeur: Raju Saraswati, Kumar Satish, Corbridge Stuart E
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible