Neocolonialism

Re- Presenting Narratives, Realities and Responses

L. Santhosh Kumar, Minu A., Barnashree Khasnobis, Preetha M., Merrin R. S.

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040854259
• Subtopic: World War II
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Neocolonialism, in contemporary discourse, has emerged as a compelling analytical lens to revisit and reassess power structures, global hierarchies, and cultural narratives in a postcolonial world. This volume explores the intricate and often obscured mechanisms through which neocolonial influence operates—economically, politically, culturally, and intellectually—redefining the contours of sovereignty and autonomy in the modern era. Scholars across disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences have increasingly turned their attention to the praxis of identifying and critiquing the subtle continuities of colonial ideologies under the guise of development, globalization, and aid. The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches employed in this volume challenge conventional perspectives and propose new interpretative frameworks for understanding neocolonial engagements in literature, media, policy, and education.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• About the Editors
• 1 Chronopolitics and Neo-Colonialism in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj: Resisting Temporal Structures of Imperialism
• 2 Transnationalism and Fluid Identities in Gun Island
• 3 Representation and Resistance of Exploitation of Natural and Human Resources in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest
• 4 Echoes of Displacement and Memory: Yaqui Community in the Context of the U.S.-Mexico Border in Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity by Kristin C Erickson
• 5 Cultural Crises and Conflict Resolution in Anne Tyler's Digging to America
• 6 Emblem of Prosperity: Themes of Alienation and Rage in Goat Days and Temporary People
• 7 Roots of Resistance: Ecological Imperialism and Indigenous Resilience in Mamang Dai's The Black Hill
• 8 Environmental Imperialism and Feudal Power: A Study of Internal Neocolonial Dynamics in Sheela Tomy's Valli
• 9 Chernobyl Diaries (2012): Dark Tourism and Ecological Imperialism in the Global Commodification of Disaster
• 10 ‘The Desire to Escape’: A Reflection on the Neocolonial Bearings on Trinidadian Literary Landscape
• 11 Colonial Past and Neocolonial Present in Ken Liu's, The Paper Menagerie
• 12 Neocolonialism and Cultural Amnesia: Practices and Challenges of Postcolonial Collaborative Methodologies in Reclaiming Indigenous Voices
• 13 Telepathic Ties: Queer Kinship and Collective Consciousness in Sense8
• 14 Empire of the Enhanced: Neocolonial Exploitation in the Age of Posthuman Capital in Machinehood by S.B. Divya
• 15 Beyond Diaspora: Exploring the Citizens of Time in the Age of Digital Imperialism
• 16 Influence of Shopping: A Study of the Select Novels of Sophie Kinsella's The Shopaholic Series
• 17 Neocolonialist Narratives and Representation of Conflicted Identities in the Novels of Shashi Tharoor
• 18 Tongues of Power: Linguistic Transition and Resistance in Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night
• 19 Theorizing Hegemonic Discourses, Panopticism, and Surveillance: Critique of O.V. Vjayan's Select Works
• 20 Exploring Aspects of Neocolonialism in Native American Literature
• 21 India's NEP 2020 is Decolonizing Language Education: A Postmodern-Postcolonial Study
• 22 From Cultural Heritage to Global Influence: Sugar, Health, and Neocolonialism in Indian Diets
• 23 The Unnatural ‘Self’: Gothic Romanticism and The Disintegration of Identity and the Impact of Neocolonialism, in “Phoenix” Movie
• 24 Paatal Lok and the Dynamics of Fluid Identities: A Postmodern Redefinition of the Three Loks in Web Series Narratives
• 25 Historic Spaces as Assemblages: The Restoration of St. Mark's Cathedral and All Saints' Church in Contemporary Bengaluru
• 26 Narratives of Resistance: Neocolonialism, Identity, and Survival in Contemporary Native American Literature
• 27 Societal Disruption and Western Dominance: The Erasure of Indigenous Traditions and the Exploitation of Wealth in Buchi Emecheta's The Rape of Shavi
• 28 A Divided Nation, A Shared Mission: A Constructivist Analysis of North and South Korean Diplomacy in Somalia as Portrayed in Escape from Mogadishu
• 29 Kathleen Winter;s ‘Annabel’: A Psycho-Literary Spell
• 30 In the Name of Health: The Intersection of Medicine and Neocolonialism in The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
• 31 French Colonialism in Africa through the Lens of Neocolonialism
• 32 When Nature Talks: Critical Analysis of Amitav Ghosh's Non-Fiction Works through the Lens of Ecological Imperialism
• 33 Female Exploitation and Resistance in Neo-Colonial Kenya: Analysing Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood
• 34 Navigating English-Teaching Amid Neo-Imperialistic Tendencies—A Study
• 35 Subversive Shadows: Homi Bhabha's Mimicry and Rebellion in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
• 36 Decoding Techno-Colonialism: A Study of Neocolonial Practices in Dave Egger's The Circle
• 37 Masculinity, Appearance, and Vigilante in Transition: Understanding Neoliberalism and ‘Nationalist Narrative’ through Cultural Fiction
• 38 The Battle of Aathi: Ecological Conflict and Sustainable Development in Sarah Joseph's Gift in Green
• 39 Anyanwu and Doro: Fluid Identities and the Struggle for Power in Octavia Butler's Wild Seed
• 40 From Chattel Slavery to Neo-colonialism: Continuities and Discontinuities in Lorraine Hansberry's The Drinking Gourd
• 41 Imperialism in Race, Society, Economy and Culture in the Select Works of Rudyard Kipling's Kim and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India: A Comparative Study through Neo-Colonialism Perspective
• 42 The Shadow of Neocolonialism in the Falklands War: An Analysis of Tony Bank's Storming the Falklands: My War and After
• 43 Re-Imagining Select ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Comics in The Neocolonialistic Perspective
• 44 Anglicising India's Power Elite English Nursery Rhymes and Children's Literature as Colonial Legacy
• 45 Challenging Colonial Hegemony through Khalil Gibran's Beautiful and Rare Sayings
• 46 Roots of Resistance: Environmental Justice and the Struggle for Resistance in Lyndsie Bourgon's Tree Thieves
• 47 Fostering Environmental Stewardship Through Biocentric Children's Literature in The Ocean Story by John Seven
• 48 Reclaiming Adivasi Identity: Challenging Narratives of Tribal Homogenisation
• 49 A Link Between Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism through the Parables in The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh
• 50 Cinematic Imperialism: How the Oscars Uphold Neocolonial Representations of Asia
• 51 Media as a Neocolonial Tool: Challenging Eurocentric Narratives in Indian Folk-Horror
• 52 Breaking the Chains: Analysing Caste and Class Exploitation in Feudal Society Through a Marxist Lens of False Consciousness in Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's “Two Measures of Rice”
• 53 Echoes of Eco-Imperialism: Environmental Exploitation in The Glass Palace
• 54 From Villains to Voices: Reclaiming Female Agency in Neo-Colonial and Patriarchal Retellings of Indian Epics
• 55 Cultural Identity and Fluidity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence
• 56 Deconstructing the Neocolonial Myth of Dependency in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place
• 57 Reclaiming Voices: Realism and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Cinema
• 58 The Myth of Independence: Neo-Colonial Realities in Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
• 59 Cyborgs, Disability, and the Normative Body: Reimagining Identity in William Gibson's Neuromancer
• 60 Mapping the ‘Spatial’ Chronicles: A Geocritical Reading of Spatial Poetics and Counter-Discourses in N. S. Madhavan's Litanies of Dutch Battery
• 61 Comparative Study on Emotional Regulation, Social Intelligence and Attitude Towards Environment of Gen-Z Vs Millennials
• 62 Re-Claiming Identity: A Study of the Commodification of Culture and Erasure of Traditions
• 63 Reverberation of Human Encroachment and Anomalous Imperialistic Behaviour of Nature as Portrayed in H. G. Wells' “The Empire of Ants”
• 64 “It's Bisan from Gaza, And I'm Still Alive”: Re-Presenting Neo-colonialism, Narrative, And Realities
• 65 Reassessing Ecological Imperialism: Depictions of Environmental Exploitation in Modern Indian Web Series
• 66 A Vicious Slaughter to Possess the Border and the Nation
• 67 Decolonization of the Tribal Lands: The Long Route to Achieve the Tribal Rights
• 68 Interactions of Diasporic ‘Fluid Identities’ in the Era of Transnationalism: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Select Stories
• 69 Exploring Sri Lankan Displacement and Systemic Racism: A Comparative Analysis of the Movie, Kannathil Muthamittal and Gloria Meltzer's Only in Sri Lanka
• 70 Textbooks, Tests, and the West: The Hidden Hierarchies in Indian ELT
• 71 Tracing Neo Colonial Influence and Representation in Hindi Cinema
• 72 Tech Empires and Identity Formation: The Digital Frontier of Neo-Colonialism
• 73 The Imprints of Neocolonialism in Khaddama: An Analysis of Economic Exploitation and Identity Crisis
• 74 Body Appreciation: Gender Differences and Relationships with Caregivers' Eating Messages and Self-compassion
• 75 Cultural Imperialism and Conflict Resolutions in Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
• 76 Echoes of Empire: Portuguese Cultural Imperialism in Goa and Mangalore from the 15th to 18th Centuries
• 77 Semantic Erosion and Land Degradation: The Neocolonial Suppression of Regional Ecological Knowledge Through Linguistic Marginalization
• 78 Neo-Colonial Hegemony and the Impact of Globalization on National Sovereignty
• 79 Quest for Identity in Australian Poetry
• 80 Dalit Women Self-Narratives: The Narration of Colonized Women's Psychology
• 81 “Echoes of Exploitation: Dark Romanticism and the Neo-Colonial Influence of Multinational Corporations”
• 82 ‘A New Era of Warfare’: Study of P.W. Singer and August Cole's Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
• 83 Land, Power and Voice: The Neocolonialism Landscape of Angor by Jacinta Kerketta
• 84 The Bible as a Text for Decolonisation
• 85 Ecological Ecocide in the Imperial Setting: A Critical Examination of Mahasweta Devi's Titu Mir
• 86 Institutional Persecution and Naxalite Insurgency in Mother of 1084: A Neocolonial Study
• 87 Neo-Colonial Masculinities: The Influence of Western Discourses on Male Identity in Post-Colonial Societies
• 88 Globalization and Its Multidimensional Impacts: A Review of Economic, Social, and Environmental Outcomes
• 89 AI and Digital Neocolonialism Through the Lens of Gender Stereotypes
• 90 Commodification of Human Organ in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest: A Neocolonial Perspective
• 91 Colonial Shadows in Avatar: A Study of Neo-colonial Ideologies in Film
• 92 Landscape vs Mindscape: A Study of Environmental Effects of Industrialization in Thane, Maharashtra: An Empirical Perspective
• 93 Neo-Colonial Hunger: Global Desires and Local Realities in The Film Kakka Muttai
• 94 Culture for Sale: Neocolonialism in Tourism, its Impact on Indigenous Communities, and the Commodification of Heritage