The decolonization of imagination : culture, knowledge and power

Abstract

Decolonization, internal decolonization, postcolonialism. Part 1 Dominant imaginaries: continuities in imagination dying races - rationalizing genocide in the 19th century ethnographic showcases, 1870-1930 liberalism and colonialism - a critique of Locke and Mill samurai and self-colonization in Japan metaphors and the Middle East - crisis discourse on Gaza. Part 2 Imaginaries of cultural pluralism: mixed bloods and the cultural politics of European identity in colonial Southeast Asia patterns of exclusion - imageries of class, nation, ethnicity and gender in Europe culture wars in the United States - closing reflections on the century of the colour line teaching for the times. Part 3 Global imaginaries: the emerging metastate versus the politics of ethno-nationalist identity the self-wandering between cultural localization and globalization.

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