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I keep forgetting to read this, thanks for the reminder. btw, are you familiar with Vijay Prashad or Amiya Kumar Bagchi? Both are fantastic modern writers on postcolonialism.

No, I'm not familiar with these names. But now I'll definitely search them. Thanks a lot for the suggestions.

Prashad is also an excellent presenter, especially for communicating global world views to siloed Western audiences:

Foreign Policy of the 1%:
What is the Meaning of the Left?:
Global Capital:

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Foreign Policy of the 1%:
What is the Meaning of t..."

Yes, I can see how eloquently he presented those ideas in these videos. Now I'm following his videos on YouTube. Also I was going to read his The Darker Nations but after seeing your review I'm postponing it, as I've not read the "prerequisite" readings, recommended by you. Bad Samaritans was already in to be read list, will read other titles as well before going for Vijay's works. I'm grateful to you for the guidance, otherwise I'd have been difficult for me to read his work in the absence of necessary tools. Thanks a lot for the kind words, sir.

Zulqarnain wrote: "Kevin wrote: "Prashad is also an excellent presenter, especially for communicating global world views to siloed Western audiences:

Foreign Policy of the 1%:
What is th..."

Actually, my recommendations are mostly geared to Western casual readers (I live in Canada) who do not even consider "imperialism" as a factor in global economics.

Since you clearly are well ahead of this (after all, we are discussing under "Discourse on Colonialism"!), you'll be able to enjoy Prashad's work right away. In fact, you will be more prepared than me since I haven't finished Cesaire (or started Fanon).

Ha-Joon Chang (Bad Samaritans) is a useful bridge to engage Western readers because he is well-established in liberal academics (Cambridge) and actually cares to detail real history instead of convenient liberal theory. For those without liberal illusions, he is a good start/refresher but you run to limitations soon...

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That's great then. I live in Pakistan, and this region remained under British colonialism, now it's a post colonial state. Our history, culture, education, or name any field of life have been effected by those colonialist/imperialist agendas. So, we can't do any study without connecting it with imperialism.


That's why in these days I'm interested in partition literature, identity and post colonialism; the things which dominates recent history of Pakistan. I think reading Vijay would be really interesting, as he is from third world country like mine and his country is also facing similar issues.

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On a related note: I find it useful when reading "economics" to always reflect on how often the economists reference real-world history, and how applicable their abstract modelling is to the real world (especially the big picture). It is very striking (and convenient!) how colonialism/slavery/unequal exchange/destruction of alternative social modes of production & distribution are so easily brushed aside.

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Yes, you're absolutely right. They actually don't want to complicate things, and simplification makes them ignore small but significant points. Even scholars from my region, where we were colonized for two centuries, don't want to debate over these things.