Books in the Postcolonial Encounters series

Is multiculturism simply a novel project of social engineering? This book rejects this view by demonstrating that multiculturalism is the political outcome of ongoing power struggles and collective negotiations of cultural, ethnic and racial differences.

Is multiculturism simply a novel project of social engineering? This book rejects this view by demonstrating that multiculturalism is the political outcome of ongoing power struggles and collective negotiations of cultural, ethnic and racial differences.

In this text scholars from various disciplines discuss citizenship and its relation to gender, ethnicity, class and national status. They focus on the dismantling of welfare states, the attack on civil society, the rise in state terror and the growth of religious and cultural fundamentalisms.

A classic collection on the fluid nature of culture and identity from some of the world's greatest post-colonial thinkers.

Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its official and unofficial forms, and its moves between the personal and the social in postcolonial transformations.

Blends personal, political and existential dimensions in detailed evocations of the ambitions and vulnerabilities of contemporary Africans.

Making a break with conventional wisdom in post-colonial discourse, this book explores contemporary African identities in transition.

An in-depth exploration of the meanings and prospects of Post-Zionism.