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Third World Protest - Between Home and the World (Hardcover)
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If boundaries protect us from threats, how should we think about
the boundaries of states in a world where threats to human rights
emanate from both outside the state and the state itself? Arguing
that attitudes towards boundaries are premised on assumptions about
the locus of threats to vital interests, Rahul Rao digs beneath two
major normative orientations towards boundaries-cosmopolitanism and
nationalism-which structure thinking on questions of public policy
and identity. Insofar as the Third World is concerned, hegemonic
versions of both orientations are underpinned by simplistic
imageries of threat. In the cosmopolitan gaze, political and
economic crises in the Third World are attributed mainly to factors
internal to the Third World state with the international playing
the role of heroic saviour. In Third World nationalist imagery, the
international is portrayed as a realm of neo-imperialist predation
from which the domestic has to be secured. Both images capture
widely held intuitions about the sources of threats to human
rights, but each by itself provides a resolutely partial inventory
of these threats. By juxtaposing critical accounts of both
discourses, Rao argues that protest sensibilities in the current
conjuncture must be critical of hegemonic variants of both
cosmopolitanism and nationalism.
The second half of the book illustrates what such a critique might
look like. Journeying through the writings of James Joyce,
Rabindranath Tagore, Edward Said and Frantz Fanon, the activism of
'anti-globalisation' protesters, and the dilemmas of queer rights
activists, Rao demonstrates that important currents of Third World
protest have long battled against both the international and the
domestic, in a manner that combines nationalist and cosmopolitan
sensibilities.
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