Books in the Writing Past Colonialism series

Brings post-colonialism into engagement with contemporary international studies, while at the same time reflecting on the discourse, noting certain blindspots and shortcomings in critique. This book begins with the position of non-European societies and the legacies of colonialism. It includes two essays on knowledge formations.

Brings post-colonialism into engagement with contemporary international studies, while at the same time reflecting on the discourse, noting certain blindspots and shortcomings in critique. This book begins with the position of non-European societies and the legacies of colonialism. It includes two essays on knowledge formations.

We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This book argues that this is a serious omission because they are designs on the world.

Investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. This book demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities.