Chambers, Claire orcid.org/0000-0001-8996-4129 and Huggan, Graham (2015) Reevaluating the Postcolonial City:Production, Reconstruction, Representation. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. pp. 783-788. ISSN 1369-801X
Abstract
This foreword begins with a survey of the field of postcolonial studies, from its points of departure to its current situation and future directions. We 10 suggest that the field has long sought to problematize borders, particularly those that separate academic disciplines. The foreword also highlights the material consequences of border crossing for people of colour and other 'Others', examining Caryl Phillips’ case study of the migrant David Oluwale. Oluwale’s abhorrent treatment in Leeds necessitates discussion of the 15 burgeoning new current of postcolonial cities research, to which this special issue adds interdisciplinary perspectives. To explore whether or not global and postcolonial cities are actually synonymous, we return to the origins of postcolonial studies to suggest that the postcolonial city has a longer provenance than the global, and retains the double meaning of ‘post’ as 20 signalling both a coming after and a continuation. We go on to argue that the special issue demonstrates that postcolonial cities exclude even as they embrace, and produce both internal and external marginality. The foreword concludes by adumbrating potential problems with the special issue’s topic: its neglect of economics in favour of culture, its overlooking of the 25 postcolonial rural, and as terminology not coming from within but without.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Interventions. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > English and Related Literature (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2015 13:58 |
Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2024 00:27 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2014.998260 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | No |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1369801X.2014.998260 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:88433 |
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