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Maureen Sioh - Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties: The Haunted Choices of Economic Development - 9781138217492 - V9781138217492
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Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties: The Haunted Choices of Economic Development

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Description for Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties: The Haunted Choices of Economic Development hardcover. Series: Routledge Research in New Postcolonialisms. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; GTF; JMAF; KCM; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .

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.

Readers will understand how emerging economies evaluate the costs and benefits of key economic policies in the postcolonial era using a psychoanalytical framework.

While there are psychoanalytic studies of the economy and finance from a western perspective, there have been no sustained psychoanalytic studies from the perspective of East Asian economies, the fastest growing in the world. Scholars will also find the methodology combining archival research with and field ... Read more

This book will be of interest to policymakers and scholars of political economy, international development, human geography, postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, and area studies (Southeast and East Asia). The book can also be used as a text for graduate and upper level university courses.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Routledge Research in New Postcolonialisms
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138217492
SKU
V9781138217492
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Maureen Sioh
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties: The Haunted Choices of Economic Development
In the 1980s and early 1990s, East Asia economic development was hailed as a miracle. Economists saw it as a model the world could follow: its visionary leadership, its egalitarian values and its future-oriented industrial strategy. For Maureen Sioh, this model has an underside, grounded in the legacies of colonial traumas. These traumas repeat themselves, producing a far more anxious ... Read more

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