This innovative & lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism Robert Young examines the political social & cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations experiences & testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level He situates the debate in a wide cultural context discussing its importance as an historical condition with examples such as the status of aboriginal people of those dispossessed from their land Algerian rai music postcolonial feminism & global social & ecological movements Above all Young argues postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality & so in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject