Against international relations norms: postcolonial perspectives

by Epstein, Charlotte

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Full title :Against international relations norms : postcolonial perspectives / edited by Charlotte Epstein

Summary

This volume uses the concept of 'norms' to initiate a long overdue conversation between the constructivist and postcolonial scholarships on how to appraise the ordering processes of international politics. Drawing together insights from a broad range of scholars, it evaluates what it means to theorise international politics from a postcolonial perspective, understood not as a unified body of thought or a new '-ism' for IR, but as a 'situated perspective' offering ex-centred, post-Eurocentric sites for practices of situated critique. Through in-depth engagements with the norms constructivist scholarship, the contributors expose the theoretical, epistemological and practical erasures that have been implicitly effected by the uncritical adoption of 'norms' as the dominant lens for analysing the ideational dynamics of international politics. They show how these are often the very erasures that sustained the workings of colonisation in the first place, whose uneven power relations are thereby further sustained by the study of international politics. The volume makes the case for shifting from a static analysis of 'norms' to a dynamic and deeply historical understanding of the drawing of the initial line between the 'normal' and the 'abnormal' that served to exclude from focus the 'strange' and the unfamiliar that were necessarily brought into play in the encounters between the West and the rest of the world. A timely intervention, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory and postcolonial scholarship

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2017

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 217 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317353669, 1317353668, 9781317353652, 131735365X
oclc:ocn987091883
LC Classification:JZ1305
Dewey Decimal:327.101

The postcolonial perspective: why we need to decolonize norms / Charlotte Epstein -- Constructivism and the normative: dangerous liaisons? / Naeem Inayatullah and David L. Blaney -- Colonial rationalities, postcolonial subjectivities, and the international / Vivienne Jabri -- Civilising norms and political authority in Africa: reflections drawn from psychoanalysis / Julia Gallagher -- Stop telling us how to behave: socialization or infantilization? / Charlotte Epstein -- Against localization: rethinking compliance and antagonism in norm dynamics / Charmaine Chua -- International norms in postcolonial time / Arjun Chowdhury -- On the therapeutic uses of racism in other countries / David T. Smith -- The norm of state-monopolised violence from a Yemeni perspective / Sarah Phillips -- Sovereign relations? Australia's 'off-shoring' of asylum seekers on Nauru in historical perspective / Anthea Vogl -- In the post-colonial waiting room: how overseas countries and territories play games with the norm of sovereignty / Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad -- Postcolonial colonialism?: the case of Turkey / Zeynep Gülsah Capan and Ayse Zarakol

Subjects

Dépendance (politique) Dependency developing countries Developing countries -- Foreign relatio… Diplomatic relations international organization international relations Organisation internationale POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Rela… postcolonialism Postcolonialisme Relations internationales