Reading Paul Carter’s decolonising governance: archipelagic thinking

Abstract

In Decolonising Governance: Archipelagic Thinking , Paul Carter 1 explores how to approach regional governance afresh. He does so on the understanding that well-inten-tioned methods to address certain matters that concern him perpetuate ‘ neo-colonialist assumptions about authority, vesting them in the language of administrative prose and the cartography of territory ’ (p 1)