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Critical notes on postcolonial theory

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Combination/copies

by
Martin Thomas
2024
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1st
Pamphlet
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36 pages
ISBN
9781909639683

The best-stocked shelves in left academia feature “postcolonial theory” and “decolonisation”. They offer colonial/ decolonial, or settler/ indigenous, as axes of analysis and struggle, in place of Marxist or Marxist-influenced ideas around social and economic class. Which are the better guides to liberation?

Links 
Table of Contents 
  • 1. Tributaries of theory
  • 2. Through the optic of 7 October 2023
  • 3. Ireland as optic
  • 4. Differentiation among postcolonial writers
  • 5. "Soft" and "hard" academic decolonialism
  • 6. Cabral and Fanon
  • 7. Skipping stages
  • 8. The human basis of socialism
  • 9. Walter Rodney and "African socialism"
  • 10. "Science must fall"?
  • 11. Said's Orientalism
  • 12. Building on bourgeois achievements
  • 13. Mathematics as example
  • 14. Building on the world achievements of capitalism and world science
  • Notes
Related / Further reading 

Edward Said, 1935-2003 (and links from that post, from the comments)

"Was 7 October an act of “decolonisation”? by Camila Bassi (and links from that post, including a video)

See the "Kumar-Matgamna debate", 2018

Camila Bassi, A critique of “Orientalism” through the spirit of Marx, bit.ly/cb-or

See the footnotes of Critical Notes on Postcolonial Theory for more

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