General Introduction / Graham Huggan --
Part I : The Imperial Past. Introduction / Graham Huggan --
Reason Aside: Reflections on Enlightenment and Empire / Ann Laura Stoler --
The Imperial Past: Spain and Portugal in the New World / Patricia Seed --
The Imperial Past : Spain and Portugal in the New World / Patricia Seed --
Imperial/Colonial Metamorphosis: A Decolonial Narrative, from the Ottoman Sultanate and Spanish Empire to the US and the EU / Walter Mignolo --
Empire, Islam, and the Postcolonial / Salman Sayyid --
Hegel, Empire, and Anti-Colonial Thought / Timothy Brennan --
Response : Imperial Histories, Postcolonial Theories / Stephen Howe --
Part II: The Colonial Present. Introduction / Graham Huggan --
Violence, Law, and Justice in the Colonial Present / Stephen Morton --
Renegade Prophets and Native Acolytes : Liberalism and Imperialism Today / Priyamvada Gopal --The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Challenge of Postcolonial Agency : International Relations, US Policy and the Arab World / Waleed Hazbun --
Africa's Colonial Present : Development, Violence, and Postcolonial Security / Joanne Sharp --
Beyond Biopolitics : Agamben, Asylum, and Postcolonial Critique / David Farrier and Patricia Tuitt --
Indigenous Inhabitations and the Colonial Present / Jo Smith and Stephen Turner --
Response : Towards an Anti-Colonial Future / Peter Hallward --
Part III: Theory and Practice. Introduction / Graham Huggan --
Revisiting Resistance : Postcolonial Practice and the Antecedents of Theory / Elleke Boehmer --
'Third Worldism' and the Political Imaginary of Postcolonial Studies / Neil Lazarus--Postcolonialism and/as Translation / Susan Bassnett --
Remembering Back : Cultural Memory, Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Studies / Michael Rothberg--Postcolonialism and Popular Cultures / Simon Featherstone --
Race, Racism, and Postcoloniality / Pooja Rangan and Rey Chow --
Response : Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Studies / Leela Gandhi --
Part IV: Across the Disciplines. Introduction / Graham Huggan --
Modes and Models of Postcolonial Cross-Disciplinarity / Diana Brydon --
Postcolonialism and Literature / John McLeod --
Postcolonialism and History / Dane Kennedy --
'Slippery, Like a Fish' : The Discourse of the Social Sciences / Barry Hindess --
At the Limits of the Secular : History and Critique in Postcolonial Religious Studies / Ananda Abeysekara --
Postcolonialism and the Environment / Dana Mount and Susie O Brien --
Response: Origins, Outcomes and the Meaning of Postcolonial Diversity / David Attwell --
Part V: Across the World --
Introduction / Graham Huggan --
Perspectives on Globalization and Subalternity / Nikita Dhawan and Shalini Randeria --
Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the Asia Question / Daniel Vukovich --
'Our Sea of Islands' : Globalization, Regionalism and (Trans)nationalism in the Pacific / Michelle Keown and Stuart Murray --
Africa and its Diasporas / Ato Quayson --
Postcolonializing the Americas / Charles Forsdick --
Irritating Europe / Frank Schulze-Engler --
Response : What was Globalization? / Ali Behdad--Afterword / Stephen Slemon

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The 'Handbook' reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past - in its multiple manifestations - and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.