About the editors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: postcolonial economies

Introduction

Engagements: postcolonial theory and economic theory

Postcolonial economies

Structure of the book

References

Section 1: Theorising the economic

1 Can political economy be postcolonial? A note

I

II

III

References

2 Postcolonial theory and economics: orthodox and heterodox

Materialist critiques of postcolonial theory

Economic moments in postcolonial theory

Postcolonial critique in economics

The terrain of economic postcoloniality

Conclusion

References

3 Acts of theory and violence: can the worlds of economic geographies be left intact?

The postcolonial impulse

(Postcolonial) economic geographies

Economic geographies and circuits of value

Concluding comments: economic geographies and the possibility of a postcolonial politics of power?

References

4 Economic geographies as situated knowledges

Introduction

Situating myself

Situated knowledges and postcolonial economies

Towards situated economic geographies

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Section 2: Postcolonial understandings of the economic

5 Cultural econo-mixes of the bazaar

Introduction

A visit to the bazaar

How bizarre is the bazaar?

Travelling to Janpath

Table 5.1

Figure 5.1 Janpath bazaar: the site of the gaze

Figure 5.2 Janpath Lane

Figure 5.3 Tehbazaaril Lane

Figure 5.4 Janpath at night

By way of conclusion

References

6 Bridging the legal abyss: hawala and the waqf?

Introduction

‘Flying Money’

The waqf in trust

Conclusion

References

7 Postcolonial geographies of Latin American migration to London from a materialist perspective

Introduction

Interpreting international migration from a postcolonial perspective

Contextualising Latin Americans in postcolonial London

The postcolonial geographies of migrating from Latin America to London

The everyday postcolonial practices of survival among Latin American migrants in London

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Section 3: Postcolonial economies: policy and practice

8 Development and postcolonial takes on biopolitics and economy

A different biopolitics

Postcolonial moves I

Postcolonial moves II

Ending it

References

9 Postcolonial economies of development volunteering

Introduction

Moral economy, postcolonial development

Development volunteering as ‘gifting’

Development volunteering as transnational professionalism

Conclusions

References

Notes on contributors

Index

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