ABSTRACT
The question that confronts anyone foolhardy enough to suggest, at the end of the 1990s, that we need a postcolonial intervention in economics, is why? With the rise of various ‘post’ theoretical traditions over the past few decades, a variety of scholars have provided sharp critiques of ‘post’ theorizing in general, and postcolonial theorizing in particular. They argue that such theories seem to have left us bereft of epistemic and ethical moorings, making postcolonial analysis lose its critical edge.
