The colonial present
Abstract: cultural geographies 2006 13: 305-312 reviews in brief The colonial present. By Derek Gregory. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2004. 367 pp. £16.99 paper. ISBN 1577180909. The colonial present extends and deepens our understanding of contemporary geopolitics in ways that speak to the key concerns of this journal. For Derek Gregory as for Edward Said, to whom the book is dedicated, and whose intellectual legacy runs through its pages - issues of culture and of geography are central to understanding how colonial 'pasts' bleed into contemporary Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. Drawing upon Said, Gregory details colonialism as a cultural process: 'Culture involves the production, circulation, and legitimation of meanings through representations, practices, and performances that enter fully into the constitution of the world' (p. 8). Since none of us is 'outside' or 'above' culture, we are all in one way or another bound up in ongoing processes of colonization, 'the performance of the colonial p
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Notes
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Cultural Geographies ; 13 (2006) 2 ; 305-305
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Politik
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2006
- Creator
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Bunnell, Tim
- DOI
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10.1191/1474474006eu348xx
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-232693
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Bunnell, Tim
Time of origin
- 2006
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