
Political Theories of Decolonization
Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations
Oxford University Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 24. March 2011
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-19-539957-8 (ISBN)
Description
Recent scholarship in political theory has focused on the treatment of colonialism in the writings of canonical thinkers such as Locke, Burke, Mill, Diderot, Tocqueville, Smith, and Kant, revealing the extent to which the subject of colonialism and imperialism dominated the minds of great thinkers as the colonial project took place. While such scholarship provides fascinating insight into the possible problems of enlightenment thought, it tends to ignore the voices of thinkers who spoke from the position of the colonized. Political Theories of Decolonization will fill a gap in postcolonial political critique by serving as an introduction to theorists who struggled with the question of how to found a new political order when the existing ideas and institutions were implicated in a history of domination. Looking at the writings of Gandhi, Ngugi, al-Afghani, and Mariategui, among several others, the authors aim to explain how the work of these thinkers engage in thematic continuities--constituting "postcolonial political thought"--and add to liberal democratic understandings of political power, as well as illuminate how many of the central questions of political theory are imaginatively explored by postcolonial writers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Students and scholars of political theory, postcolonial political theory, democratic theory, and global studies
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-539957-8 (9780195399578)
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Margaret Kohn | Keally McBride
Political Theories of Decolonization
Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations
E-Book
03/2011
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OUP eBook
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Margaret Kohn | Keally McBride
Political Theories of Decolonization
Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations
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03/2011
1st Edition
OUP eBook
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Persons
Margaret Kohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Keally McBride is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of San Francisco.
Keally McBride is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of San Francisco.
Author
Associate Professor of Political ScienceAssociate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Associate Professor of Political ScienceAssociate Professor of Political Science, University of San Francisco
Content
Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Political Theory and Decolonization ; Chapter One Postcolonial Political Theory and the Problem of Foundations ; Chapter Two Islamic Political Thought and Imperialism ; Chapter Three Grounds of Resistance: Land as Revolutionary Foundation ; Chapter Four Self-Determination Reconsidered: Revolutions of Decolonization and Postcolonial Citizenship ; Chapter Five Colonialism and the State of Exception ; Chapter Six The Philosophy of Liberation ; Conclusion: Gandhi and the Critique of Western Civilization