Postcolonial Critique After Posthumanism: Sensing Other Life and the Problem of Ontology

The text explores advances around the concepts of political ontology and posthumanism to show how postcolonial studies can draw further on work from geography, anthropology, politics, literature, and indigenous studies. Bridging the gap that has emerged between innovative theoretical and empirical demands, and the insufficient conceptual means of orthodox postcolonialism, it proposes new trajectories through which to advance postcolonial scholarship, even seeking to radicalize it in the process. Postcolonial studies have transformed critical thinking in the humanities and social sciences. The book will also address how relational and posthumanist approaches can themselves learn from postcolonial histories, an

Mark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies in the School of Geographical Sciences, at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. He co-ordinated a panel on posthumanism and postcolonialism at the 2014 RGS/IBG conference and will lead another at the 2015 AAG conference.

About the AuthorMark Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies in the School of Geographical Sciences, at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. He co-ordinated a panel on posthumanism and postcolonialism at the 2014 RGS/IBG conference and will lead another at the 2015 AAG conference.