Cheryl McEwan is Professor of Human Geography at Durham University, UK. Her main research interests include ethical consumption in the global South, the geographies of transformation in South Africa and the role of postcolonial theory and decolonial politics in shaping responses to global challenges. She is author of Gender, Geography and Empire (2000) and Postcolonialism and Development (2009), and co-editor of Postcolonial Geographies (2002) and Postcolonial Economies (2011).

• 1 Introduction 2 Histories and geographies of postcolonialism 3 A postcolonial history development 4 Discourses of development and the power of representation 5 Critiquing development knowledge and power 6 Agency in development 7 Towards a postcolonial development agenda 8 Beyond Development and decolonizing life in the ‘Anthropocene’? 9 Conclusions

Cheryl McEwan is Professor of Human Geography at Durham University, UK. Her main research interests include ethical consumption in the global South, the geographies of transformation in South Africa and the role of postcolonial theory and decolonial politics in shaping responses to global challenges. She is author of Gender, Geography and Empire (2000) and Postcolonialism and Development (2009), and co-editor of Postcolonial Geographies (2002) and Postcolonial Economies (2011).

• 1 Introduction 2 Histories and geographies of postcolonialism 3 A postcolonial history development 4 Discourses of development and the power of representation 5 Critiquing development knowledge and power 6 Agency in development 7 Towards a postcolonial development agenda 8 Beyond Development and decolonizing life in the ‘Anthropocene’? 9 Conclusions

Cheryl McEwan is Professor of Human Geography at Durham University, UK. Her main research interests include ethical consumption in the global South, the geographies of transformation in South Africa and the role of postcolonial theory and decolonial politics in shaping responses to global challenges. She is author of Gender, Geography and Empire (2000) and Postcolonialism and Development (2009), and co-editor of Postcolonial Geographies (2002) and Postcolonial Economies (2011).

• 1 Introduction 2 Histories and geographies of postcolonialism 3 A postcolonial history development 4 Discourses of development and the power of representation 5 Critiquing development knowledge and power 6 Agency in development 7 Towards a postcolonial development agenda 8 Beyond Development and decolonizing life in the ‘Anthropocene’? 9 Conclusions