Spatial justice

The ecological imperative and postcolonial development

Bibliographic Data

ID2178469
AuthorsMalcolm Sen (0000-0001-5090-0814)
Year2009
Volume45
Issue4
Pages365-377
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449850903273507
OpenAlexW1981826719
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited14

In current debates within postcolonial ecocriticism developmental issues faced by postcolonial nation‐states are often sidetracked in favour of an historicist approach that charts the importance of environmental politics in the colonial period. However, while such an historicism is important, this essay argues that postcolonial ecocriticism needs urgently to analyse the current environmental and developmental conditions in which the postcolonial subject resides. This essay, using Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide as a case study, argues that postcolonial ecocritical literature requires a consideration of the interconnections between postcoloniality, environmentalism and economic development

Colonialism · Ecocriticism · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Environmentalism · Historicism · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · South Asian Studies and Diaspora · Ecology · History · Law · Philosophy

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