アフガニスタン、パレスチナ、アルジェリア、インド、ブラジル…可視化されることの少ないさまざまな情景を紹介し、ポストコロニアリズムが問いかけるものを浮かび上がらせる革新的な手引きです。具体的な政治・社会・文化状況を出発点に、下からの視点による理論や実践を訴えます。新版は人種、民族、奴隷制、ジェンダーに関する最新の議論を反映し章立てや構成を一新。ポストコロニアル主義は過去の半植民地闘争の延長線上にある格差や不平等と戦う行動主義の政治哲学で、脱植民地化を可能とするものであると解きます。
   

• Introduces postcolonialism in both its historical and contemporary manifestations
• Analyses the political, social, and cultural realities of the colonial experience, and of decolonization
• This new edition contains updated material on race, slavery, and gender in the postcolonial discussion
• Draws on situations, experiences, and testimony taken from all over the world
• Examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of western political and cultural domination

  
Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world.
   
Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of western political and cultural domination. Situating the discussion in a wide cultural and geographical context, he draws on examples such as the status of indigenous peoples, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, and global social and ecological movements. In this new edition he also includes updated material on race, slavery, and postcolonial gender politics. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past and enables us to decolonize our own lives in the present.