'Future of Postcolonial Studies' Second And Third Edition : Academic Articles By Ania Loomba : Brief Discussion

Introduction : This blog is written as a response to the Thinking Activity assigned by Professor Dr Dilip Barad regarding Ania Loomba's article 'Future of Postcolonial Studies' 2nd and 3rd editions.

2nd Edition : An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its most promising new developments. In addressing questions about the definition and relevance of postcolonial scholarship, many of the essays consider its relation to the study of globalization. While some contributors offer broad reflections on the existing two-way influence between postcolonial theory and established university disciplines such as literary criticism and history, others forge ahead into some vital, if nascent, areas for postcolonial research such as media studies, environmental studies, religious studies, and linguistic and semantic analysis.The contributors represent many of the fields altered by postcolonial studies over the past two decades, including literary studies, history, anthropology, Asian and African studies, and political science. They model diverse applications of postcolonial theory to Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. Postcolonial Studies and Beyond propels the field forward. It showcases scholars coming from intellectual precincts usually considered outside the purview of the postcolonial finding new ways to deploy classic techniques of postcolonial analysis, and scholars strongly associated with postcolonial studies offering substantial critiques designed to challenge the field’s most fundamental assumptions.

3rd Edition : This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include globalization, new grassroots movements (including Occupy Wall Street), the environmental crisis, and the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial studies. Loomba also discusses how ongoing struggles such as those of indigenous peoples, and the enclosure of the commons in different parts of the world shed light on the long histories of colonialism. This edition also has extensive discussions of temporality, and the relationship between premodern, colonial and contemporary forms of racism. This books includes:

• key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism

• the relationship of colonial discourse to literature

• anticolonial thought and movements

• challenges to colonialism, including anticolonial discourses

• recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories

• issues of sexuality and colonialism, and the intersection of feminist and postcolonial thought

• the relationship of activist struggles and scholarship.

Illustration of Ecocriticism :

Here are few examples of films whose plots deal with Ecocriticism :