Postcolonial Geographies

Alison Blunt is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Cheryl McEwan is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Birmingham

"Postcolonial Geographies is long overdue. It will help in moving postcolonial discourse beyond its preoccupation with deconstructing colonial texts or engaging in narrow forms of cultural criticism."--Haripriya Rangan, Monash University

• Introducing Postcolonial Geographies, Alison Blunt and Cheryl McEwan Part I - Postcolonial Knowledge and Networks 1. Postcolonial geographies: Survey-explore-review. 2. Constructing colonial discourse: Britain, South Africa and the Empire in the nineteenth century, Alan Lester. 3. Imperialism, sexuality and space: Purity Movements inthe Brits Empire, Richard Phillips. 4. Inquiries as postcolonial devices: The Carnegie Corporation and pverty in South Africa, Morag Bell. Part II - Urban Order, Citizenship and Spectacle 5. The evolution of spatial ordering in colonial Madras, M. Satish Kumar. 6. Georgraphy with a difference? Citizenship and difference in postcolonial urban spaces, Mark McGuinness. 7. (Post-)colonial geographies at Johannesburg's Empire Exhitibion, 1936. 8. Exploding the myth of Portugal's 'maritime destiny': A postcolonial voyage through EXPO '98, Marcus Power. Part III - Home, Nation and Identity 9. Mining empire: Journalists in the American West, C. 1870, Karen M. Morin. 10. Earthly poles: The Antarctic voyages of Scott and Amundsen, Johnm Wylie. 11. 'Where are you from?": Young British Muslim women and the making of 'home' Claire Dwyer. 12. Belonging and non-belonging: The apology in a reconciling nation, Haydie Gooder and Jane M. Jacobs.