Postcolonial Economies

'This book signals that postcolonialism has lost none of its potential to provoke and surprise; setting fresh agendas.' James D Sidaway, University of Amsterdam 'This innovative collection rises to the theoretical and methodological challenge of bringing together into constructive dialogue the often antagonistic literatures on postcolonialism and (political) economy.' Jo Sharp, University of Glasgow 'This collection presents an exciting mix of scholars attuned to the productivity of postcolonial thinking who are listening, watching, moving around and toward economies in new ways.' Katherine Gibson, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy University of Western Sydney

Jane Pollard has published articles in journals such as Antipode, Area, the Journal of Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Urban Studies. She sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Economic Geography, Geography Compass and Growth and Change. Cheryl McEwan is the author of Gender, Geography and Empire (2000) and Postcolonialism and Development (2008), and is co-editor of Postcolonial Geographies (2002). She is currently Editor (Development Section) of Geography Compass and sits of the Editorial Board of the RGS-IBG/Blackwell Book Series. Alex Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at Newcastle University in the UK. She is co-editor (with Suzanne Reimer) of Geographies of Commodity Chains (2004).

Introduction: Postcolonial Economic Lives - The Editors Part I: Theorising the Economic 1. Can Political Economy be Postcolonial? A Note - Dipesh Chakrabarty 2. Postcolonial Theory and Economics: Orthodox and Heterodox - Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin 3. Acts of Theory and Violence : Can the Worlds of Economic Geographies be Left in Tact? - Roger Lee 4. Economic Geographies as Situated Knowledges - Wendy Larner Part II: Postcolonial Understandings of the Economic 5. Cultural Econo-Mixes of the Bazaar - Nitasha Kaul, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London 6. Bridging the Legal Abyss: Hawala and the Waqf? - Hilary Lim 7. Postcolonial Geographies of Latin American Migration to London: Towards a Materialist Perspective - Cathy McIlwaine Part III: Postcolonial Economies: Policy and Practice 8. Development and Postcolonial Takes on Biopolitics and Economy - Christine Sylvester 9. Postcolonial Economies of Development Volunteering - Pat Noxolo 10. Conclusion - The Editors