Colonialism and Its Legacies

by Levy, Jacob T.; Alfred, Taiaike; Chakabarty, Dipesh; Dussel, Enrique; Eze, Emmanuel; Hsueh, Vicki; Kohn, Margaret; Mehta, Pratap Bhanu; Muthu, Sankar; Parekh, Bhikhu; Pitts, Jennifer; Schutte, Ofelia; Souza, Jessé; Young, Iris Marion

• ISBN13: 9780739142929
• ISBN10: 0739142925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-31
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Colonialism and Its Legacy brings together essays by leading scholars in both the fields of political theory and the history of political thought about European colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political theory. The essays explore the ways in which European colonial projects structured and shaped much of modern political theory, how concepts from political philosophy affected and were realized in colonial and imperial practice, and how we can understand the intellectual and social world left behind by a half-millennium of European empires. The volume ranges from the beginning of modernity to the present day, examining colonialism and colonial legacies in India, Africa, Latin America, and North America.

Author Biography

Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University in Montreal. Iris Marion Young was, at the time of her death, professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Diderot's Theory of Global (and Imperial) Commerce: An Enlightenment Account of ôGlobalizationö	p. 1
Empire, Progress, and the ôSavage Mindö	p. 21
Under Negotiation: Empowering Treaty Constitutionalism	p. 53
Wasáse: Indigenous Resurgences	p. 79
The ôWorld-Systemö: Europe As ôCenterö and Its ôPeripheryö beyond Eurocentrism	p. 97
The Singularity of Peripheral Social Inequality	p. 121
After Colonialism: The Impossibility of Self-Determination	p. 147
Indian Conceptualization of Colonial Rule	p. 171
Resistance to Colonialism: The Latin American Legacy of José Martí	p. 181
Subaltern History as Political Thought	p. 205
Double Consciousness and the Democratic Ideal	p. 219
Colonialism and the State of Exception	p. 243
Index	p. 267
About the Contributors	p. 275
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