ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, my aim has been to spell out some of the key concerns of a postcolonial perspective, especially as they relate to the study and representation of the spatial and the urban. In addressing these concerns, I have also attempted to elaborate on and qualify some of the predominantly global concepts and discourses discussed in Chapter 2. While it is evident from the more geographically focused Chapter 3 that disciplinary discourses of the global can indeed be integrated with those of the postcolonial, this is the exception rather than the rule. It is not difficult, for example, to cite the titles of many recent texts in social and urban theory that address the topic of globalization but, irrespective of their significant contributions in the field, make either no or virtually no reference to the colonial or postcolonial. This is particularly true with recent work on the city.1
