ISBN: 9781844674169

Paperback: 108 pages
Publisher: Verso, 2009
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 13 x 0.9 x 19.7 cm

Ryszard Kapuciski witnessed and reported on major wars, coups and revolutions as they happened throughout the developing world and global South. In this distillation of his reflections on a lifetime of travel, he takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other: the non-European or non-American. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and considering its formative significance for his own work, Kapuciski traces how the West has understood the Other from classical times to colonialism, from the age of enlightenment to the postmodern global village.