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UNINA9910779413503321 |
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Titolo |
Postcolonialism and political theory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nalini Persram |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-39686-0 |
0-7391-5935-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Postcolonialism |
Political science - Philosophy |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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