Metropolitan anxieties : a critical appraisal of Sartre's theory of colonialism

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Description :
Sartre's philosophical works and political activism is located against the backdrop of a Parisian intellectual life marked by struggles over the future of Marxism. Sartre's desire to contest and rethink metrocentric framings of colonialism and anticolonialism derived from his weddedness to a historicised phenomenology of existence as spatial. Critical interrogation of the complicity of postcolonial theory in the global march of metrocentric ontology affords geography and postcolonial studies a new impetus for dialogue. Before scrutinising how the colonising tendencies of postcolonial theory might best be handled, there is a need to map historical geographies of the theoretical projects and practices that have emerged in different metropolitan locations and at different times.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Transactions - Institute of British Geographers (1965), issn : 0020-2754, 2011, vol. 36, n°. 3, p. 408-424, nombre de pages : 17, Références bibliographiques : 78 ref.

Date :
2011

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Institute of British Geographers