Postcolonialism and Political Theory

by Nalini Persram, Lucian M. Ashworth Memorial University of Newfoundland, Phillip Darby, Enrique Dussel, Graham Finlay

Overview

Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity—largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power and prosperity—constituted by otherness, radical alterity, or subordination to the newly reconsolidated West. The book offers a diverse range of essays that re-examine and open the boundaries of political and cultural modernity's historical domain; that look at how the racialized and gendered and cultured subject visualizes the social from elsewhere; that critique the limits of postcolonial theory and its claim to celebrate diversity; and that complicate the notion of postcolonial politics within settler societies that continue to practice exile of the indigenous. Postcolonialism and Political Theory is an ideal book for graduate and advanced undergraduate level study and for those working both disciplinarily and interdisciplinarily, both inside and outside academia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739116678
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	05/10/2007
Series:	Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.33(w) x 9.38(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

Nalini Persram teaches Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. She has taught at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of the West Indies, and her areas of intererest include subjectivity and survival, Caribbean forms of culture and resistance, and other sites of political theory.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Pushing Politics
Part 2 Part One: Imperialism and Political Thought
Chapter 3 Alterity and Modernity (Las Casa, Vitoria and Suárez: 1514-1617)
Chapter 4 Ibn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics
Chapter 5 From American Democracy to French Empire: Race and the Law in Tocqueville's Liberalism
Chapter 5 Power and Development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on Empire
Part 7 Part Two: Critical Diagnostics and Newness
Chapter 8 Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought
Chapter 8 Postcolonial Dialogics: Between Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci
Chapter 9 The Gift of Double Consciousness: Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized
Chapter 10 Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French PUblic Schools
Chapter 12 Edouard Glissant's Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization
Chapter 13 From Post-Colonial to Post-Occidental Paradigm: Indigenous Peoples' Mobilization and the Advancement of New Scholarship
Part 13 Part Three: Indigenous Movements of the Postcolonial
Chapter 15 Doing the Postcolonial Differently
Chapter 16 Postcolonial Dialogues and Public Cyberspace: Pacific Insights for Cynical Times