Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class

by Chowdhry; Geeta

• ISBN13: 9780415329361
• ISBN10: 0415329361
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring of world politics. It addresses further themes central to postcolonial theory, such as the impact of representation on power relations, the relationship between global capital and power and the space for resistance and agency in the context of global power asymmetries. The implications of these themes are discussed using a wide range of postcolonial readings and critiques of contemporary issues. By its innovative use of postcolonial theory, Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations offers a new vantage point from which to view issues of global inequality and the structuring of that inequality through race, gender and class.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
1 Introduction: Power in a postcolonial world: race, gender, and class in international relations	1	(32)
GEETA CHOWDHRY AND SHEILA NALR
2 Postcolonial criticism: international reality and modes of inquiry	33	(23)
SIBA N. GROVOGUI
3 Situating race in international relations: the dialectics of civiizational security in American immigration	56	(26)
RANDOLPH B. PERSAUD
4 Beyond hegemonic state(ment)s of nature: indigenous knowledge and non-state possibilities in international relations	82	(33)
J. MARSHALL BEIER
5 Cultural chauvinism and the liberal international order: "West versus Rest" in Asia's financial crisis	115	(27)
L.H.M. LING
6 "Sexing" globalization in international relations: migrant sex and domestic workers in Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey	142	(28)
ANNA M. AGATHANGELOU
7 In one innings: national identity in postcolonial times	170	(14)
SANKARAN KRISHNA
8 The "new cold war": secularism, orientalistu, and postcoloniality	184	(25)
SHAMPA BIS WAS
9 A story to be told: IR, postcolonialism, and the discourse of Tibetan (trans)national identity	209	(16)
DIBYESH ANAND
10 Postcolonial interrogations of child labor: human rights, carpet trade, and Rugmark in India	225	(29)
GEETA CHOWDHRY
11 Human rights and postcoloniality: representing Burma	254	(31)
SHEILA NALR
Bibliography	285	(27)
Index	312