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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779413503321

Titolo

Postcolonialism and political theory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nalini Persram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2007

ISBN

1-299-39686-0

0-7391-5935-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

Global encounters

Altri autori (Persone)

PersramNalini <1964->

Disciplina

325/.301

Soggetti

Postcolonialism

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Pushing Politics; Part I: Imperialism and Political Thought; 1. Alterity and Modernity (Las Casas, Vitoria, and Suarez: 1514-1617); 2. Ibn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics; 3. Power and Development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on Empire; 4. From American Democracy to French Empire: Race and the Law in Tocqueville's Liberalism; Part II: Critical Diagnostics and Newness; 5. Postcolonial Dialogics: Between Edward said and Antonio Gramsci

6. Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought7. The Gift of Double Consciousness: Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized; 8. Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French Public Schools; 9. Edouard Glissant's Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization; Part III: Indigenous Movements of the Postcolonial; 10. From Postcolonial Critique to Postoccidental Paradigm: Indigenous Peoples' Mobilization and the Advancement of New Scholarship; 11. Doing the Postcolonial Differently

12. Postcolonial Dialogues and Public Cyberspace: Pacific Insights for Cynical TimesIndex; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.