Criminality And Power In The Postcolonial City
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Criminality And Power In The Postcolonial City
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Author : Maria Ridda
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-11-21
Criminality And Power In The Postcolonial City written by Maria Ridda and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book investigates the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city through the lens of crime in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present. Employing the analogy of a ‘black hole,’ it posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial manifestations of coloniality and global capitalist urbanity. Despite their different histories, Mumbai and Naples have remarkable similarities. Both are port cities, ‘gateways’ to their countries and regional trade networks, and both are marked by extreme wealth and poverty. They are also the sites and symbolic battlegrounds for a wider struggle in which ‘the North exploits the South, and the South fights back.’ As one of the characters of the novel The Neapolitan Book of the Dead puts it, a narrativisation of the underworld allows for a ‘discovery of a different city from its forgotten corners.’ Crime provides a means to understand the relationship between space and society/culture in a number of cities across the Global South, by tracing a narrative of postcolonial urbanity that exposes the connections between exploitation and the ongoing ‘coloniality of power.’
Blood Power And Bedlam
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Author : Christopher W. Mullins
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
Blood Power And Bedlam written by Christopher W. Mullins and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Blood, Power, and Bedlam examines the etiology of violations of international criminal law in four post-colonial African states. With a particular focus on genocide and crimes against humanity, an integrated theory is produced and historical, political, economic, and structural aspects are explored. The book's main intent is an analysis of the worst crimes humans commit and how, in the cases examined, they arise out of a post-colonial environment. Attention is given to existing or potential applications of international social control.
State Of Fear
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Author : Joshua Barker
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2024-08-02
State Of Fear written by Joshua Barker and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-02 with Social Science categories.
In State of Fear, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control. Examining the ethnographic and historical genealogies of Indonesian policing, Barker focuses on the city of Bandung, which is permeated by anxieties about security, in spite of the fact that it’s a relatively safe city according to the data. Drawing from his fieldwork there during the latter years of the authoritarian New Order regime, Barker traces the complex relationship between the state and vigilante groups like neighborhood watch patrols and street gangs. Through interviews with police officers, vigilantes, and street-level toughs, he uncovers a struggle between two visions of social control that continues to animate policing in Indonesia: the modern, bureaucratic approach favored by the state, and a territorial approach that divides the city into fiefdoms overseen by charismatic individuals of authority. Synthesizing insights from in-depth ethnographic, historical, and theoretical work, Barker reveals how authoritarianism can take root not just from the top down but also from the bottom up.
Criminal Cities
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Author : Molly Slavin
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2023-05-24
Criminal Cities written by Molly Slavin and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well as possibilities for cultural, aesthetic, and political catharsis. Examining late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels set in London, Belfast, Mumbai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Nairobi, and urban areas in the Palestinian West Bank, Criminal Cities considers the marks left by neocolonialism and imperialism on the structures, institutions, and cartographies of twenty-first-century cities. Molly Slavin suggests that literary depictions of urban crime can offer unique capabilities for literary characters, as well as readers, to process and negotiate that lingering colonial violence, while also providing avenues for justice and forms of reparations.
The Postcolonial City And Its Subjects
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Author : Rashmi Varma
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-08-05
The Postcolonial City And Its Subjects written by Rashmi Varma and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical frameworks—the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the construction of postcolonial public spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions and eviscerations of public spaces and rights.
Postcolonial London
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Author : John McLeod
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
Postcolonial London written by John McLeod and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
London's histories of migration and settlement and the resulting diverse, hybrid communities have engendered new forms of social and cultural activity reflected in a wealth of novels, poems, films and songs. Postcolonial London explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s. John McLeod engages freshly with the work of both well-known and emergent writers, including Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Colin MacInnes, Bernardine Evaristo, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Fred D'Aguiar. In reading a select body of writing in its social contexts and exploring contrasting attitudes to London's diasporic transformation, he traces an exciting history of resistance to the prejudice and racism that have at least in part characterised the postcolonial city. Rewritings of London, he argues, bear witness to the determination, imagination and creativity of the city's migrants and their descendants. This is a superb study of the ways in which 'imperial centre' might be rewritten as postcolonial metropolis. It represents essential reading for those interested in British or postcolonial literature, or in theorisations of the city and metropolitan culture.
Criminal Justice In The Pre Colonial Colonial And Post Colonial Eras
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Author : Peter Okoro Nwankwo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Criminal Justice In The Pre Colonial Colonial And Post Colonial Eras written by Peter Okoro Nwankwo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Law categories.
This book advances Frantz Fanon's two-revolutionary theory of decolonization and analyzes the changes in law during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras. The author argues that Fanon's model of colonial oppression and its categories of maintenance needs are predictive of the evolution from pre-colonial to post-colonial society in Africa.
Francophone Afropean Literatures
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Author : Nicki Hitchcott
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
Francophone Afropean Literatures written by Nicki Hitchcott and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.
Short stories conclude with translator's name.
Figures Of Criminality In Indonesia The Philippines And Colonial Vietnam
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Author : Vicente L. Rafael
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Figures Of Criminality In Indonesia The Philippines And Colonial Vietnam written by Vicente L. Rafael and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Social Science categories.
A complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern postcolonial nation-state. Contributors include Daniel S. Lev, Henk M. J. Maier, Rudolf Mrazek, James T. Siegel, and others.
Of Conformity Criminality And Contestation
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Author : Josephine Ahikire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Of Conformity Criminality And Contestation written by Josephine Ahikire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Popular culture categories.