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Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in four contemporary First World cities: two sites in London and two sites in the Australian cities of Perth and Brisbane. Through these examples the spatialised cultural politics of a number of 'postcolonial' processes are unravelled: the imperial nostalgias of the one-time heart of empire, the City of London; the struggle of diasporic groups to make a homespace in the old imperial heartlands; the unsettling presence of Aboriginal claims for the sacred in the space of the modern city; and the emergence of hybrid spaces in the contemporary city. This book is about the spatial politics of race and nation, nature and culture, past and present. This is a 'global geography of the local'. The book is distinctive in that it takes theories of colonialism and postcolonialism to the space of the city-it gives real space to the spatial metaphors of much contemporary social theory. If the contemporary city is a postmodern space it has not-so-hidden geographies of imperialism and postcolonialism. The global reach of the book-its focus on two poles of one trajectory of British imperialism-provides a global assemblage which forms a basis for und

Who reads Edge of Empire : Postcolonialism and the City?

Author

Jane M. Jacobs

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134810857

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Social Science