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Rising A sia and postcolonial geography
Author(s) -
Raghuram Parvati,
Noxolo Pat,
Madge Clare
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
singapore journal of tropical geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9493
pISSN - 0129-7619
DOI - 10.1111/sjtg.12045
Subject(s) - postcolonialism (international relations) , transformative learning , sociology , critical geography , underpinning , colonialism , human geography , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , indigenous , field (mathematics) , scholarship , style (visual arts) , cultural geography , social science , geography , political science , archaeology , philosophy , ecology , pedagogy , biochemistry , civil engineering , chemistry , mathematics , pure mathematics , law , engineering , biology
There has been much discussion recently about the future of postcolonial theory. Some suggest that it is on the wane, while others defend its continued capacity for transformative critique. This paper contributes to these debates by considering postcolonial geography's future through the prism of ‘Rising A sia’. Rising A sia presents challenges to the spatial matrices underpinning current thinking in postcolonial geography, particularly the global South/North distinction and the histories of colonialism. What is the constituency of, and the emerging collectivities around, Rising A sia? What are the tensions between past, present and future in thinking about Rising A sia? We route our response to these questions by conceptualizing postcolonial geography as a disciplinary performance that draws on its subdisciplines. The argument is developed through three conceptual hooks—field, constituency and temporality—drawn from a reading of E dward Said's works Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975) and On Late Style: Music and Literature against the Grain (2007). Ultimately we do not seek to set an agenda for postcolonial geography; instead we suggest that greater attentiveness to the indeterminacies of postcolonial theory as it passes into postcolonial geography might allow more generative responses to the questions posed by Rising A sia.