The Economics of Empire by Michael Osullivan

The Economics of Empire by Michael Osullivan

The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multi-disciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire.

"I am fascinated by the various chapters as well as by the overall picture this volume paintsThe editors and authors have caught a necessary wave. The overlap between global economic theory and literature will become increasingly important and this strikes me as new material which addresses old issues in a provocative and original manner; the conceptual issues are important, specifically, the relationship between material and ideal structures. That is, the book asks: how do the material structures of global capitalism influence the production of global humanities, literature, and social theory? The book definitely fills a gap – the gap between works on political economy and those working in the tradition of the humanities." — Naeem Inayatullah, Professor in the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, USA

"The Economics of Empire is a rare publication that explicitly focuses on bringing empire and capitalism into conversation through a broadly post-colonial lens. In this respect, the book concretises a debate that has been perennial but has also attracted new scholarly interest in recent years. It offers an important contribution as the timing is ripe for such an explicit intervention in postcolonial critique with a view to renewing the field and linking it to other fields." — Robbie Shilliam, Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, USA

"I am fascinated by the various chapters as well as by the overall picture this volume paints. The editors and authors have caught a necessary wave. The overlap between global economic theory and literature will become increasingly important and this strikes me as new material which addresses old issues in a provocative and original manner; the conceptual issues are important, specifically, the relationship between material and ideal structures. That is, the book asks: how do the material structures of global capitalism influence the production of global humanities, literature, and social theory? The book definitely fills a gap – the gap between works on political economy and those working in the tradition of the humanities."

Naeem Inayatullah, Professor in the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, USA

"The Economics of Empire is a rare publication that explicitly focuses on bringing empire and capitalism into conversation through a broadly post-colonial lens. In this respect, the book concretises a debate that has been perennial but has also attracted new scholarly interest in recent years. It offers an important contribution as the timing is ripe for such an explicit intervention in postcolonial critique with a view to renewing the field and linking it to other fields."

Robbie Shilliam, Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, USA

"The Economics of Empire is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary edited collection which seeks to reassess and redress the links between capitalism, material culture, and colonial encounters in postcolonial studies… [It] engages itself in an audacious renewal and refreshment of postcolonial critique that finds new language for reasoning materialist postcoloniality… The editors, in all humility, admit that this work and its contributors "[. . .] have come some way and that distance, however diminutive, is significant" (xxxviii). Arguably it is the momentum of this collection’s methodology that is "significant" and with its chapters considered in isolation, could instigate new scholars to take steps into broad, rich, multimodal and activistic research."

Lauren Clark, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, writing in Irish Studies Review, 30:2

Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem is Associate Professor of English at The City University of New York/Kingsborough, USA. She also teaches at Drew University, USA, and at The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.

Michael O’Sullivan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has taught on literature and language in universities in Ireland, the UK, the USA, Japan, and Hong Kong.

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ISBN 13	9780367425746
ISBN 10	0367425742
Title	The Economics of Empire
Author	Michael Osullivan
Series	Postcolonial Politics
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2020-12-31
Number of pages	254
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