Iain Chambers: 10 books

The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges...

In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific'...

Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions...

Le migrazioni contemporanee hanno spezzato il tempo della modernità. Quando lʻAltro non è più tenuto a distanza, ma appare costantemente nella forma concreta degli altri e delle altre; quando lʻincontro tra culture, storie, religioni e lingue diverse emerge al centro della nostra vita quotidiana,...

Brings together renowed and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our global future.

This book examines how we can conceive of a ’postcolonial museum’ in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space, practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies,...

Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings of a ‘southern question’ that extends beyond...

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. It touches on arguments surrounding Nietzsche and Italian ‘weak thought’, the mysteries of being ‘British’, and with more immediate concerns such as computers, fashion,...

La musica di cui si occupa questo libro è uno dei generi e stili del rock. È il rock di Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp e Counting Crows. Come il jazz, ha una miriade di interpreti, i frutti del cui lavoro sono sintetizzati e incorporati in quello di pochi artisti....