Geopolitics and the Post-Colonial: Rethinking North-South RelationsISBN: 978-0-631-21452-6
Hardcover
296 pages
November 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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"This book’s innovations include its systematic engagement
with the works of Third World intellectuals, its rigorous
conceptualization of Euro-Americanism, and a creative recovery of
Gramscian Marxism; these features help to ground a very powerful
framework for the post-colonial. This book is the product of a
tremendous intellectual maturity and sophistication … the
author engages and reworks, with great mastery and success, the
best theories of our time."
Arturo Escobar, University of North
Carolina
"This singular text challenges the “common sense”
view of contemporary world power in an eminently sensible and
sensitive manner. Written with admirable and unfashionable clarity
… it provides a constantly suggestive tour d'horizon
of the state of global geopolitics at the start of the
millennium."
James Dunkerley, Institute of Latin
American Studies, University of
London
"This book is part of the best tradition of research which,
particularly since the 1990s, has been showing that a proper
understanding of the world is necessarily much larger than a
Western understanding of the world … Slater formulates a new
critical theory that is adequate to the realities and possibilities
created by the global times in which we live, and fully capable of
accounting for the metamorphoses of the growing inequalities
between North and South."
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra and University
of Wisconsin-Madison
"... the book has many positive aspects to be stressed.
It is especially strong on the history and present condition of
American imperial hegemony and clearly draws on a wide and detailed
knowledge of the Latin American scene." Progress in Deveopment
Studies
“Geopolitics and the Post-Colonial is a rich
contribution to the analysis of the imperialist geopolitics of
North-South relations inherent in contemporary processes of
political and economic globalization.”
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
"It is specifically the reflexive and open-minded way in which
Slater analyses post-colonial thinking in relation to geopolitics
that makes this a very inspiring work."
Development and Change
"Provoking, timely and delivered with panache.”
Gareth A. Jones, London School of Economics and Political
Science
“A valuable addition to the study of Chilean politics
after authoritarian rule, analyzing some of the most important
factors explaining the trajectory from a brutal military
dictatorship to a stable and rather prosperous democratic
regime."
Javier A. Couso, Universidad Diego Portales