Description
Engagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years. The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics provides a solid reference point for understanding and analyzing global politics from a perspective sensitive to the multiple legacies of colonial and imperial rule.
The Handbook introduces and develops cutting-edge analytical frameworks that draw on Black, decolonial, feminist, indigenous, Marxist and postcolonial thought as well as a multitude of intellectual traditions from across the globe. Alongside empirical issue areas that remain crucial to assessing the impact of European and Western colonialism on global politics, the book introduces new issue areas that have arisen due to the mutating structures of colonial and imperial rule.
This vital resource is split into five thematic sections, each featuring a brief, orienting introduction:
- Points of departure
- Popular postcolonial imaginaries
- Struggles over the postcolonial state
- Struggles over land
- Alternative global imaginaries
Providing both a consolidated understanding of the field as it is, and setting an expansive and dynamic research agenda for the future, this handbook is essential reading for students and scholars of International Relations alike.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Postcolonial Politics: An Introduction
- Olivia U. Rutazibwa and Robbie Shilliam
Section 1: Points of Departure
2. Introduction
3. Waiwai (Abundance) and Indigenous Futures
- Mary Tuti Baker
4. European Integration as a Colonial Project
- Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson
5. Securing the Postcolonial
- Pinar Bilgin
6. Social Struggles and the Coloniality of Gender
- Rosalba Icaza
7. Racism and ‘Blackism’ in a World Scale
- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Section 2: Popular Postcolonial Imaginaries
8. Introduction
9. The Imperial Sociology of the ‘Tribe’
- Nivi Manchanda
10. Terrorism and the Postcolonial ‘State’
- Swati Parashar
11. The Colonial Mediterranean, Anonymity and Migration Control
- Emilio Distretti
12. Violence, Hermeneutics and Postcolonial Diplomacy
- Deep Datta-Ray
13. Arab Feminism: Between Secular and Islamic Models
- Soumaya Mestiri
14. The Everyday Practices of Development
- Althea-Maria Rivas
15. LGBTIQ Rights, Development Aid and Queer Resistance
- Christine M. Klapeer
Section 3: Struggles over the Postcolonial State
16. Introduction
17. The State: Postcolonial Histories of the Concept
- Gurminder K. Bhambra
18. Race, Ethnicity and the State: Contemporary Quilombos in a Historical Perspective
- Desiree Poets
19. The Revolution of Smiling Women: Stateless Democracy and Power in Rojava
- Dilar Dirik
20. The Postcolonial Complex in Okinawa
- Eiichi Hoshino
21.‘Too Simple and Sometimes Naïve’: Hong Kong, between China and the West
- Xin Liu
Section 4: Struggles over Land
22. Introduction
23. 'Old wine in new bottles’: Enclosure, Neoliberal Capitalism and Postcolonial Politics
- A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
24. Saltwater Archives: Native Knowledge in a Time of Rising Tides
- Joy Lehuanani Enomoto and D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie
25. Global Environmental Harm, Internal Frontiers, and Indigenous Protective Ontologies
- Ajay Parasram and Lisa Tilley
26. No Migration, Repatriation: Spiritual Visionings and Political Limitations of Rastafari Repatriation to Ethiopia
- Ijahnya Christian
27. Is a Decolonised University Possible in a Colonial Society?
- Andile Mngxitama
Section 5: Alternative Global Imaginaries
28. Introduction
29. Wanda’s Dream: Daoist World Politics in Five Acts
- L.H.M. Ling
30. Civilizing Process or Civilizing Mission? Toward a Post-Western Understanding of Human Security
- Giorgio Shani
31. Dialogical International Relations: Gandhi, Tagore and Self-Transformation
- Aparna Devare
32. ‘Telling a Tale’: Gender, Knowledge and the Subject in Nepal
- Rahel Kunz and Archana Thapa
33. Du Bois, Ghana, and Cairo Jazz: The Geo-Politics of Malcolm X
- Hisham Aidi
34. Blesi Doub. Heridas Dobles. Dual Wounds. Re-writing the Island
- Alanna Lockward
35. African Violet: Hybrid of Circumstance
- Denize LeDeatte
