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Alternative Futures and the Present

Alternative Futures and the Present

Ranabir Samaddar

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2024
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Colonialismo e imperialismo
ISBN:
9781032404806
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Through an engagement with selected texts, events and thinkers central to the present, this book offers an imagination of different possible futures from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that exist for conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring.

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