February 2012
3 posts
we got world? part two
The legacy left by colonialism was that there was a postcolonial world to be elaborated and defended. This was a world to be further developed, its sovereignty secured, and its people cohered as one. It was to be developed both in counter-distinction and in concurrence with the West. I was something to be sufficiently different from that which interrupted the emerging nation’s own former...
we got world? part one
In the conclusion to a recent book edited with Aihwa Ong, Ananya Roy re-appropriates the notion of the postcolonial, not as a description of an urban condition, but as a means of pursuing new lines of urban research and theory. As overarching concepts of urbanization have been constructed as isomorphic with the experiences of Western cities, it is more important to understand how these cities...
