At the Edge of International Relations
Postcolonialism, Gender and Dependency
Phillip Darby(Editor)
Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd
Published on 1. June 2000
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85567-438-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays examines the place and absence of the Third World in global discourses. From globalization and dependency to gender and sexuality, it draws on diverse sources, including literary narrative, postmodernist geography and even 19th-century medical discourse. International relations serves as a reference point throughout. The book attempts to position new ways of thinking in relation to established disciplinary paradigms in international relations. There are ten chapters, which are divided into three parts. The first part examines the three discourses adjacent to international relations which, implicitly or explicitly, challenge the discipline's suzeraintity over the domain of world politics. The second part covers particular episodes and issues in the interaction between North and South, or earlier between colonizer and colonized. The third part explores issues of gender and sexuality which arise in the context of relations between North and South. The thematic links between the chapters are reinforced by the introduction and the afterword by the editor.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-438-7 (9781855674387)
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Content
Part 1 Framing discourse: postcolonialism; globalization; postdependency? Part 2 Placing the international: inscribing the Hottentot Venus - generating data for difference; forests of the night - the moralised typography of the Mau Mau; when the dogs howl - Thailand and the politics of democratization; when ordinary people gather - the concept of partnership in development. Part 3 Narrating gender and sexuality: another India - imagining escape from the masculine self; women in colonial Africa agency, theory and literature; women in postcolonial Africa - between African men and western feminists. Afterword; notes.