Reworking Postcolonialism ― Globalization, Labour and Rights

An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It focuses on the impact of global market forces on the formation of new subject positions among urban dwellers, exiles, and other disenfranchised communities. Bringing together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world, the essays collected here investigate the transformative effects of the global dissemination of capital and goods and the movements of people. They call for a revision of existing discourses on rights, entitlements and citizenship.

Pavan Kumar Malreddy is a Researcher at the Institute for English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Birte Heidemann is a doctoral candidate at the University of Potsdam; she has taught English Literature at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.

Ole Birk Laursen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK.