This volume sets out to chart a “sociological turn” in postcolonial studies, which the editor Raphael Dalleo dates to 2000, taking the work of Pierre Bourdieu as its guiding inspiration. This sociological turn, Dalleo argues, followed on from the Marxist materialist critique of postcolonial studies dating from the early 1990s, which had been highly critical of a leaning in the field towards an acceptance of celebratory discourses of globalization. Dalleo presents the publication of Graham Hug...