Postcolonialism and Political Theory (Paperback)

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. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity_largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power and prosperity_constituted by otherness, radical alterity, or subordination to the newly reconsolidated West. The book offers a diverse range of essays that re-examine and open the boundaries of political and cultural modernity's historical domain; that look at how the racialized and gendered and cultured subject visualizes the social from elsewhere; that critique the limits of postcolonial theory and its claim to celebrate diversity; and that complicate the notion of postcolonial politics within settler societies that continue to practice exile of the indigenous. Postcolonialism and Political Theory is an ideal book for graduate and advanced undergraduate level study and for those working both disciplinarily and interdisciplinarily, both inside and outside academia.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	February 2008
Editors:	Nalini Persram
Contributors:	Lucian M. Ashworth • Phillip Darby • Enrique Dussel • Graham Finlay • Alice Feldman • M.I. Franklin • Jane Gordon • Lewis Gordon • Hwa Yol Jung
Dimensions:	229 x 154 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	322
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-1668-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	0-7391-1668-1
Barcode:	9780739116685

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