Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences

Ireland and Postcolonial Theory

The question at the heart of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory was Ireland a colony? is a simple one. How it is answered, however, has enormous repercussions for understanding just about every aspect of Irish history and society: culture, economics, politics, demographics and a whole array of everyday rituals, ranging from patterns of speech through the inhabiting of physical space to daily praye...

Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences

approaches are now being connected to the real data flows of contemporary urban governance. This chapter is where the determination of robust chaotic processes begins to seem a real possibility.

Systems Theory, Knowledge, and the Social Sciences

It is not too much of an overstatement, I think, to suggest that systems theory has not lived up to the great promise it has long been supposed to hold for the social sciences. Considering the magnitude of the claims, of course, disappointment was probably inevitable. Systems theory has been hailed by some as a way of unifying the methodology of all sciences. Others have intimated that this app...

Postcolonial translation: theory and practice

PosTcolonIal sTudIes and TRanslaTIon TheoRy

What distinguishes postcolonial approaches to translation is that they examine intercultural encounters in contexts marked by unequal power relations. Herein lie their strengths as well as their weaknesses. Their major contribution has been to illuminate the role of power in the production and reception of translation. But it is not certain that the postcolonial framework can be applied to othe...