Decolonizing International Relations
The modern discipline of International Relations (IR) is largely an Anglo-American social science. It has been concerned mainly with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. However, this focus can be seen as Eurocentrism. Decolonizing International Relations exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions of colonialism, imperialism, race, slavery, and dispossession in the non-European world. Critical …
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- Full title :Decolonizing International Relations
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The modern discipline of International Relations (IR) is largely an Anglo-American social science. It has been concerned mainly with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. However, this focus can be seen as Eurocentrism. Decolonizing International Relations exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions of colonialism, imperialism, race, slavery, and dispossession in the non-European world. Critical scholars in IR and international law, concerned with the need to decolonize knowledge, have authored.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Place of Publication:Lanham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
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- Description:1 online resource (287 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780742576469, 0742576469
- oclc:on1105517097
- Dewey Decimal:327.101
Table of Contents
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; Introduction: International Relations, Eurocentrism, andImperialismBranwen Gruffydd Jones; PART I EUROCENTRIC ORIGINS AND LIMITS; 1 International Relations as the Imperial Illusion; or, the Need to Decolonize IR Julian Saurin; 2 International Relations Theory and the Hegemony of Western Conceptions of Modernity Sandra Halperin; 3 Liberalism, Islam, and International Relations Mustapha Kamal; PART II THE COLONIAL AND RACIAL CONSTITUTIONOF THE INTERNATIONAL.
4 Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations Sankaran Krishna5 Decolonizing the Concept of ""Good Governance"" Antony Anghie; 6 Dispossession through International Law: Iraq in Historical and Comparative Context James Thuo Gathii; PART III TOWARD DECOLONIZED KNOWLEDGEOF THE WORLD AND THE INTERNATIONAL; 7 Beyond the Imperial Narrative: African Political Historiography Revisited Alison J. Ayers; 8 Mind, Body, and Gut! Elements of a Postcolonial HumanRights Discourse Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui.
9 Retrieving ""Other"" Visions of the Future: Sri Aurobindo and theIdeal of Human Unity B.S. ChimniConclusion: Imperatives, Possibilities, …
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