Postcolonial Geographies

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by Alison Blunt and Cheryl McEwan

Continuum Publishing

Due/Published December 2004, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 082647750X

Postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked through the spatiality of colonial discourse as well as the material effects of colonialism and decolonization. Geographical ideas about space, place, landscape, and location have helped to articulate different experiences of colonialism both in the past and present and the 'here' and 'there'. At the same time, whilst spatial images such as mobility, margins and exile abound in postcolonial writings, more material geographies have often been overlooked.