Postcolonialism and Political Theory

by Persram, Nalini; Ashworth, Lucian M.; Darby, Phillip; Dussel, Enrique; Finlay, Graham; Feldman, Alice; Franklin, M.I; Gordon, Jane; Gordon, Lewis; Jung, Hwa Yol; Juan Jr, E San; Savage, John; Scott, Joan W.

• ISBN13: 9780739116678
• ISBN10: 0739116673
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-10
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Pushing Politics	p. ix
Imperialism and Political Thought
Alterity and Modernity (Las Casas, Vitoria, and Suarez: 1514-1617)	p. 3
Ibn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics	p. 37
Power and Development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on Empire	p. 57
From American Democracy to French Empire: Race and the Law in Tocqueville's Liberalism	p. 77
Critical Diagnostics and Newness
Postcolonial Dialogics: Between Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci	p. 99
Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought	p. 121
The Gift of Double Consciousness: Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized	p. 143
Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French Public Schools	p. 163
Edouard Glissant's Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization	p. 193
Indigenous Movements of the Postcolonial
From Postcolonial Critique to Postoccidental Paradigm: Indigenous Peoples' Mobilization and the Advancement of New Scholarship	p. 229
Doing the Postcolonial Differently	p. 249
Postcolonial Dialogues and Public Cyberspace: Pacific Insights for Cynical Times	p. 271
Index	p. 307
About the Contributors	p. 319
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