Geopolitics and the Post-Colonial

With a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, the book
analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial
perspective.

• A novel approach to understanding US-Third World
  relations.

• Critically considers the genesis of US power.

• Interweaves ideas and events, interventions and
  representations.

• Highlights the contribution of Third World intellectuals.

Autorentext
David Slater is Professor of Social and Political Geography at Loughborough University. He is the author of Territory and State Power in Latin America (1989), co-editor of The American Century (1999) and an editor of the journal Political Geography.

Zusammenfassung
With a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, the book analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial perspective.

• A novel approach to understanding US-Third World relations.

• Critically considers the genesis of US power.

• Interweaves ideas and events, interventions and representations.

• Highlights the contribution of Third World intellectuals.

Inhalt

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Conceptual and Historical Issues.

1 For a Post-Colonial Geopolitics.

2 Emerging Empire and the Civilizing Powers of Intervention.

Part II: Waves of Western Theory.

3 Modernizing the Other and the Three Worlds of Development.

4 The Rise of Neo-Liberalism and the Expansion of Western
Power.

Part III: Archipelagos of Critical Thinking.

5 Societies of Insurgent Theory: the Dependentistas Write
Back.

6 Exploring Other Zones of Difference: from the post-modern to
the post-colonial.

Part IV: Geopolitics in a Globalizing World.

7 Post-Colonial Questions for Global Times.

8 'Another World is Possible' - on social movements, the
Zapatistas and the dynamics of 'globalization from below'.

9 Conclusions: Beyond the Imperiality of Knowledge.

Notes.

References.

Index.