Postcolonial Economies

About the editors......Page 3
Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Engagements: postcolonial theory and economic theory......Page 13
Postcolonial economies......Page 19
Structure of the book......Page 21
References......Page 26
Section 1: Theorising the economic......Page 30
I......Page 32
II......Page 34
III......Page 41
References......Page 43
2 Postcolonial theory and economics: orthodox and heterodox......Page 46
Materialist critiques of postcolonial theory......Page 50
Economic moments in postcolonial theory......Page 53
Postcolonial critique in economics......Page 56
The terrain of economic postcoloniality......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 66
References......Page 67
3 Acts of theory and violence: can the worlds of economic geographies be left intact?......Page 72
The postcolonial impulse......Page 74
(Postcolonial) economic geographies......Page 75
Economic geographies and circuits of value......Page 84
Concluding comments: economic geographies and the possibility of a postcolonial politics of power?......Page 86
References......Page 87
Introduction......Page 90
Situating myself......Page 92
Situated knowledges and postcolonial economies......Page 96
Towards situated economic geographies......Page 100
Conclusion......Page 106
References......Page 108
Section 2: Postcolonial understandings of the economic......Page 114
Introduction......Page 116
A visit to the bazaar......Page 117
How bizarre is the bazaar?......Page 120
Travelling to Janpath......Page 124
Table 5.1......Page 126
Figure 5.1 Janpath bazaar: the site of the gaze......Page 127
Figure 5.3 Tehbazaaril Lane......Page 131
Figure 5.4 Janpath at night......Page 133
References......Page 135
Introduction......Page 138
‘Flying Money’......Page 146
The waqf in trust......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 161
References......Page 162
Introduction......Page 166
Interpreting international migration from a postcolonial perspective......Page 167
Contextualising Latin Americans in postcolonial London......Page 172
The postcolonial geographies of migrating from Latin America to London......Page 174
The everyday postcolonial practices of survival among Latin American migrants in London......Page 180
Conclusions......Page 185
References......Page 186
Section 3: Postcolonial economies: policy and practice......Page 192
8 Development and postcolonial takes on biopolitics and economy......Page 194
A different biopolitics......Page 197
Postcolonial moves I......Page 203
Postcolonial moves II......Page 207
Ending it......Page 209
References......Page 212
Introduction......Page 214
Moral economy, postcolonial development......Page 217
Development volunteering as ‘gifting’......Page 219
Development volunteering as transnational professionalism......Page 224
Conclusions......Page 230
References......Page 232
Notes on contributors......Page 238
Index......Page 242
About Zed Books......Page 249