Decolonizing Enlightenment
Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2014
335 pages
978-3-8474-0314-2 (ISBN)
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Do norms of justice, human rights and democracy enable disenfranchised communities? Or do they simply reinforce relations of domination between those who are constituted as dispensers of justice, rights and aid, and those who are coded as receivers? Critical race theorists, feminists and queer and postcolonial theorists confront these questions and offer critical perspectives.
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Der Sammelband ist eine Einladung zur weiteren Untersuchung von Dekolonialisierungstheorien und -praxen in Kultur, Ökonomie, Politik und Recht und bietet daher Ansatzpunkte für Wissenschaftler_innen, die im Bereich der postkolonialen feministischen Theorie arbeiten, sowie Wissenschaftler_innen in Philosophie, Politikwissenschaft, Recht und Kulturwissenschaften. feministische studien 2/2015 Insgesamt [...] findet, wer sich im Rahmen Spivak'scher Konzeptionen mit aktuellen politikwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten zum Feld der Kritik an Aufklärung und Demokratie befassen möchte, einen absolut lesenswerten, theoretisch und begriffsanalytisch reichen Band vor. Femina Politica 2/2015More details
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English
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Leverkusen-Opladen
Germany
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College/higher education
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graduate and postgraduate students, junior and senior scholars and academics, activists interested in Postcolonial Studies, global justice, human rights, democracy and cosmopolitanism
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4,60 MB
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978-3-8474-0314-2 (9783847403142)
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Nikita Dhawan
Decolonizing Enlightenment
Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World
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04/2014
1st Edition
Verlag Barbara Budrich
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Prof. Dr. Nikita Dhawan, Junior Professor of Political Science (Gender/Postcolonial Studies), Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Content
- Cover
- Decolonizing Enlightenment
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Entangled Legacies
- Affirmative Sabotage of the Master's Tools: The Paradox of Postcolonial Enlightenment
- The Disenchantment of Enlightenment
- Re-enchantment of Enlightenment
- Imperialist Enlightenment or Enlightenment Against Imperialism?
- Enlightenment Is Critique
- Do not Accuse, Do not Excuse
- Bibliography
- Under (Post)colonial Eyes: Kant, Foucault, and Critique
- Critique, Enlightenment, and (Post)Colonial Interventions
- Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
- Kant's Concept of Race
- Perpetual Critique
- Bibliography
- Hegel and the Black Atlantic: Universalism, Humanism and Relation
- Hegel in Paris
- Aimé Césaire: Négritude and Aufhebung
- Franz Fanon: Recognition and Revolution
- Edouard Glissant: Relation and Totality
- Postcolonial Cannibalism
- Bibliography
- Uncanny Entanglements: Holocaust, Colonialism, and Enlightenment
- Uncanny Questions
- The Shoah: Rupture in Civilization or Civilized Evil?
- The Banality of Evil
- Enlarged Thinking
- (Re-)Education or What to Do After Evil?
- Bibliography
- II. Transnational Justice
- A Historical Claim for Justice: Re-configuring the Enlightenment for and from the Margins
- Contesting Racism in Imperial Germany
- Discourse of Difference
- The Anthropological Gaze of the Spectacle: Social Practices of Difference
- A Feminist History of Racism
- Taking the Stage Again
- Renewing Enlightenment
- Bibliography
- Feminist Justice Beyond Law: Spivakian "Ab-Use" of Enlightenment Textuality in Imagining the Other
- Introduction
- Textually Placing the Native Informant: Spivak Reading Kant
- Is Postcolonialism a Feminism? Native Informant as Woman
- Through and Beyond "Law": Toward a Feminist Justice
- A Situated Problem: Staging the Ethical
- Conclusion: Feminism of the Singular?
- Bibliography
- A Modest Proposal for Transnational Justice and Political Responsibility
- Post_colonial Feminist Contestations of Transnational Justice
- Responsibility to Transnational Justice
- Making Privileged Irresponsibility and Epistemic Ignorance Matter in Conceptualizing Responsibility
- Identifying the Agents of Transnational Justice
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Decolonizing Theories of Global Justice
- Liberal Theories of Justice and their Exclusionary Mechanisms: John Rawls's "Decent Peoples"
- Beyond the Parish Walls? Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach
- Justice as an Experience of the Impossible: Postcolonial Feminist Interventions to Liberal Theories of Justice
- Bibliography
- III. Human Rights
- The Other Side of the Story: Human Rights, Race,and Gender from a Transatlantic Perspective
- Introduction
- Subjectivity and Sovereignty: "I Conquer" and the Imperial Attitude
- The Imperial Attitude and Human Rights
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Propertization as a Civilizing and Modernizing Mission: Land and Human Rights in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
- Introduction
- Propertization in Europe
- Propertization in Mexico
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Between Postnationality and Postcoloniality: Human Rights and the Rights of Non-citizensin a "Cosmopolitan Europe"
- The Rights of Man and the Rights of Citizen
- Citizens, Non-citizens and the Postcolonial
- Human Rights, Migrant Rights, and the Postnational
- Reconfiguring the Rights in Human Rights
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Defensive Relativism: Universalism, Sovereignty, and the Postcolonial Predicament
- Introduction
- Decolonizing Relativism
- Sovereignty and the Postmodern State
- Democratic Sovereignty and Exclusion
- The Groundings of Human Rights: Transcendental Versus National
- The Culture of Rights and Wants
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- IV. Democracy
- Democracy's Subjections: Human Rights in Contexts of Scarcity
- Introduction
- Human Rights, Scarcity, and State Repression in Uganda
- Liberal Constitutionalism, Poverty, and Resistance in South Africa
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Statelessness and the Power of Performance: A Reading of Resistance in the Face of Agamben's Sovereign Power
- Schmitt and Agamben
- Postcolonialism and Legacies of European Enlightenment
- Bibliography
- Provincializing Cosmopolitanism: Democratic Iterations and Desubalternization
- Seyla Benhabib's Cosmopolitanism: Democratic Iteration and Jurisgenesis
- Spivak's "Learning to Learn from Below"
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
