Decolonising Governance: Archipelagic Thinking by Paul Carter (English) Hardcove

Description: Decolonising Governance by Paul Carter Taking the forgotten or marginalized cultural/intellectual histories and geographies of the archipelago as its theme, this volume drives forward current discussions about the changing relationship between governance and democracy. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction - are thus treated parochially and ineffectually. Not designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance.Archipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earths human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where governance is understood performatively as the continuous establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of decolonisation.A book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of analysis, Decolonising Governance is an important intervention in the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas, including communicational praxis, land/sea biodiversity design, bicultural resource management, and the constitution of post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions. Author Biography Author of the acclaimed The Road to Botany Bay, an essay in spatial history, Paul Carters more recent books include Dark Writing, geography, performance, design (2008), Meeting Place, the human encounter and the challenge of coexistence (2013) and Places Made After Their Stories, design and the art of choreotopography (2015). Also a poet, his collection Ecstacies and Elegies was published in 2013. Through his design studio Material Thinking he has made signal contributions to the public art and design of Federation Square (Melbourne) and Yagan Square (Perth). Paul Carter is Professor of Design/Urbanism at the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University. Table of Contents Introduction1. Exchange rates: figuring the archipelago2. From your own seashore: a philosophical geography3. Ocean connections: local knowledge and regions of care4. Affiliations after the flood: archipelagic poetics5. Overflow: a model for culture-based regional development6. Bacan: biodiversity in the anarchipelagoConclusion Details ISBN0815380496 Year 2018 ISBN-10 0815380496 ISBN-13 9780815380498 Format Hardcover Author Paul Carter Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Series Postcolonial Politics Subtitle Archipelagic Thinking Country of Publication United States DEWEY 325.301 Affiliation RMIT University, Australia Pages 236 Publication Date 2018-10-02 Language English UK Release Date 2018-10-02 AU Release Date 2018-10-02 NZ Release Date 2018-10-02 US Release Date 2018-10-02 Illustrations 2 Line drawings, black and white Alternative 9780367585754 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Imprint Routledge Place of Publication New York We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141432646;

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