jenna0010's review against another edition
3.0
I love Lisa Lowe and this one had some hard-hitting truths but I found it sort of repeated itself quite a bit. The introduction was so strong and laid out so many lines of relation about the entanglements between colonial projects and the slave trade, between abolition and the extraction of Asian labour.
grete_rachel_howland's review against another edition
5.0
As a citizen, but especially as an educator, I am so glad that I read this book. Lowe's work and the insights that follow from it are immeasurably significant. Each chapter offers a new but rooted lens through which to experience her overall points. The text is clear but decidedly "academic", so if you're out of school practice you'll have to put on your best thinking cap. It is worth it. Thank you, Dr. Lowe!
goldandsalt's review against another edition
5.0
Such rich AND readable theory. Would be a great introduction to postcolonialism.
atsundarsingh's review
4.0
3.5 ⭐️ Look, I'm going to be in conversation with this book for the rest of my life, so it's hard to give it a review that acknowledges that and also demonstrates that I think it's lacking in a few ways that are important to me. It's super important that Chapter 1 was an article *ten years* before the book came out, so the book and its method don't seem revolutionary. That's because the method had already been written and taken up long before the book came out around 2015. That being said, in many parts of chapters 2-5 the footnotes show that Lowe is reading and intellectually engaging with entire bodies of work (e.g. indigenous theory, literature on Indian indenture, etc.) that don't become part of the monograph. So the question is, why? All this aside, this is strong cultural history of the ways that what we now think of as globalization is much older than we acknowledge, and that its roots are hidden, on purpose, to avoid confronting the histories of exploitation and erasure that so often connected the world.
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