| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (322 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Global encounters
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Global encounters.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Pushing Politics; Part I: Imperialism and Political Thought; 1. Alterity and Modernity (Las Casas, Vitoria, and Suarez: 1514-1617); 2. Ibn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics; 3. Power and Development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on Empire; 4. From American Democracy to French Empire: Race and the Law in Tocqueville's Liberalism; Part II: Critical Diagnostics and Newness; 5. Postcolonial Dialogics: Between Edward said and Antonio Gramsci. |
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6. Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought7. The Gift of Double Consciousness: Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized; 8. Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French Public Schools; 9. Edouard Glissant's Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization; Part III: Indigenous Movements of the Postcolonial; 10. From Postcolonial Critique to Postoccidental Paradigm: Indigenous Peoples' Mobilization and the Advancement of New Scholarship; 11. Doing the Postcolonial Differently. |
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12. Postcolonial Dialogues and Public Cyberspace: Pacific Insights for Cynical TimesIndex; About the Contributors. |
| Summary |
Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Persram, Nalini, 1964-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Postcolonialism and political theory. 1st pbk. ed. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2008] 9780739116685 (OCoLC)185031614 |
| ISBN |
9780739159354 (electronic book) |
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0739159356 (electronic book) |
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1299396860 (e-book) |
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9781299396869 (e-book) |
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9780739116685 |
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0739116681 |
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