Maureen Sioh

Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties (eBook, ePUB)

The Haunted Choices of Economic Development

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315440262
• Artikelnr.: 69942775

Autorenporträt

Maureen Sioh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at DePaul University. She trained as a hydrologist and has worked in China, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore and with First Nations communities in Canada. Her early research focussed on water quality. Concerned with the subjective process of how communities made decisions when confronting environmental issues, her research evolved to postcolonialism, and then to economics and psychoanalysis. She is the coauthor of Global Libidinal Economy with Ilan Kapoor, Gavin Fridell and Pieter de Vries.

Inhaltsangabe

0.Introduction. 1.Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties. 2.The
Foundational Fantasy of Colonial Ecology. 3.Dismantling the Colonial
Foundational Fantasy. 4.Trauma and the Wound of Race in the Malayan
Emergency. 5.Anxiety and Pricing Race at Independence. 6.Postcolonial
Anxieties and Performing Territorialization. 7.The Logic of Trauma in
Financial Crisis. 8.Anxiety and Economic Policy in Resurgent East Asia.
x.Conclusion