Reading Paul Carter’s decolonising governance: archipelagic thinking

In<i> Decolonising Governance: Archipelagic Thinking</i>, Paul Carter explores how to approach regional governance afresh. He does so on the understanding that well-intentioned 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).