This text presents a sustained geographical analysis of postcolonialism. Exploring and developing the connections between postcolonialism and geography, the essays in the book investigate the geographies of postcolonialism.

Introducing Postcolonial Geographies, Alison Blunt and Cheryl McEwan Part I - Postcolonial Knowledge and Networks 1. Postcolonial geographies: Survey-explore-review. 2. Constructing colonial discourse: Britain, South Africa and the Empire in the nineteenth century, Alan Lester. 3. Imperialism, sexuality and space: Purity Movements inthe Brits Empire, Richard Phillips. 4. Inquiries as postcolonial devices: The Carnegie Corporation and pverty in South Africa, Morag Bell. Part II - Urban Order, Citizenship and Spectacle 5. The evolution of spatial ordering in colonial Madras, M. Satish Kumar. 6. Georgraphy with a difference? Citizenship and difference in postcolonial urban spaces, Mark McGuinness. 7. (Post-)colonial geographies at Johannesburg's Empire Exhitibion, 1936. 8. Exploding the myth of Portugal's 'maritime destiny': A postcolonial voyage through EXPO '98, Marcus Power. Part III - Home, Nation and Identity 9. Mining empire: Journalists in the American West, C. 1870, Karen M. Morin. 10. Earthly poles: The Antarctic voyages of Scott and Amundsen, Johnm Wylie. 11. 'Where are you from?": Young British Muslim women and the making of 'home' Claire Dwyer. 12. Belonging and non-belonging: The apology in a reconciling nation, Haydie Gooder and Jane M. Jacobs.