The postcolonial politics of development offers an extensive critique of existing development practice kapoor walks with social theorists to make insightful interventions into the instabilities of power but also takes them forward to theorize the agency that such instabilities make possible. This book uses a postcolonial lens to question developments dominant cultural representations and institutional practices investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics ilan kapoor examines recent development policy. The postcolonial politics of development ilan kapoor routledge feb 8 2008 political science 184 pages 0 reviews this book uses a postcolonial lens to question developments dominant cultural representations and institutional practices investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics. Postcolonialism focuses on the political and cultural struggle against colonialism and imperialism it interrogates how european culture history and knowledge combined to advance