The Decolonization of the Imagination: Culture, Knowledge and Power

By Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Book Overview

This collection provides an overview of strategies towards cultural decolonization in a post-Cold War world and to explore options for a global cultural politics. Addressing itself to an audience in both the South and the North, the book's contributors explore the relations between power and culture, between domination and the imagination. Acknowledging that former colonizers and colonized have both been shaped by a colonial imaginary, they explore a variety of decolonization strategies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185649280X
• ISBN13: 9781856492805
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"