Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (Routledge International Handbooks)

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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. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1 Postcolonial politics: An introduction PART I Points of departure 2 Introduction 3 Waiwai (abundance) and indigenous futures 4 European integration as a colonial project 5 Securing the postcolonial 6 Social struggles and the coloniality of gender 7 Racism and 'blackism' on a world scale PART II Popular postcolonial imaginaries 8 Introduction 9 The imperial sociology of the 'tribe' 10 Terrorism and the postcolonial 'state' 11 The colonial Mediterranean, anonymity and migration control 12 Violence, hermeneutics and postcolonial diplomacy 13 Arab feminism: Between secular and Islamic models 14 The everyday practices of development 15 LGBTIQ rights, development aid and queer resistance PART III Struggles over the postcolonial state 16 Introduction 17 The state: Postcolonial histories of the concept 18 Race, ethnicity and the state: Contemporary quilombos in Brazil's settler colonial present 19 The revolution of smiling women: Stateless democracy and power in Rojava 20 The postcolonial complex in Okinawa 21 'Too simple and sometimes naïve': Hong Kong, between China and the West PART IV Struggles over land 22 Introduction 23 'Old wine in new bottles': Enclosure, neoliberal capitalism and postcolonial politics 24 Saltwater archives: Native knowledge in a time of rising tides 25 Global environmental harm, internal frontiers and indigenous protective ontologies 26 No migration, repatriation: Spiritual visionings and political limitations of Rastafari repatriation to Ethiopia 27 Is a decolonised university possible in a colonial society? PART V Alternative global imaginaries 28 Introduction 29 Wanda's dream: Daoist world politics in five acts 30 Civilising process or civilising mission?: Toward a post-Western understanding of Human Security 31 Dialogical international relations: Gandhi, Tagore and self-transformation 32 'Telling a tale': Gender, knowledge and the subject in Nepal 33 Du Bois, Ghana and Cairo jazz: The geo-politics of Malcolm X 34 Blesi Doub/Heridas Dobles/Dual Wounds: Re-writing the island 35 African violet: Hybrid of circumstance Index