Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality

by David Scott

How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at "deconstructing" Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point, but that changing realities in these countries require a new approach. In Refashioning Futures,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691004862
• ISBN13: 9780691004860
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"