The limits of responsibility: A postcolonial politics of academic knowledge production

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-124

  Jazeel, Tariq ^a   McFarlane, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Knowledge; Learning; Postcolonial; Production; Representation; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ETHICS; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POLITICS; POST-COLONIALISM; RESEARCH;

EID: 71949090967     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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