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Decolonising Governance - Archipelagic Thinking (Hardcover)
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Decolonising Governance - Archipelagic Thinking (Hardcover)
Series: Postcolonial Politics
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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 earth's
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.
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