Routledge handbook of postcolonial politics Engagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years. The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics provides a solid reference point for understanding and analyzing global politics from a perspective sensitive to the multiple legacies of colonial and imperial rule. The Handbook introduces and develops cutting edge analytical frameworks that draw on Black decolonial feminist indigenous Marxist and postcolonial thought as well as a multitude of intellectual traditions from across the globe. Alongside empirical issue areas that remain crucial to assessing the impact of European and Western colonialism on global politics the book introduces new issue areas that have arisen due to the mutating structures of colonial and imperial rule. This vital resource is split into five thematic sections each featuring a brief orienting introduction: Points of Departure Popular Postcolonial Imaginaries Struggles over the Postcolonial State Struggles over Land Alternative Global Imaginaries. Providing both a consolidated understanding of the field as it is and setting an expansive and dynamic research agenda for the future this Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars of International Relations alike Postcolonial politics : an introduction Olivia U. Rutazibwa and Robbie Shilliam Points of departure : introduction Waiwai (abundance) and indigenous futures Mary Tuti Baker European integration as a colonial project Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson Securing the postcolonial Pinar Bilgin Social struggles and the coloniality of gender Rosalba Icaza Racism and Blackism in a world scale Sabelo J. Ndlovu Gatsheni Popular postcolonial imaginaries : introduction The imperial sociology of the tribe Nivi Manchanda Terrorism and the postcolonial state Swati Parashar The colonial Mediterranean anonymity and migration control Emilio Distretti Violence hermeneutics and postcolonial diplomacy Deep Datta Ray Arab feminism : between secular and Islamic models Soumaya Mestiri The everyday practices of development Althea Maria Rivas LGBTIQ rights development aid and queer resistance Christine M. Klapeer Struggles over the postcolonial state : introduction The state : postcolonial histories of the concept Gurminder K. Bhambra Race ethnicity and the state : contemporary Quilombos in a historical perspective Desiree Poets The revolution of smiling women : stateless democracy and power in Rojava Dilar Dirik The postcolonial complex in Okinawa Eiichi Hoshino Too simple and sometimes naïve : Hong Kong between China and the West Xin Liu Struggles over land : introduction Old wine in new bottles : enclosure neoliberal capitalism and postcolonial politics A. Haroon Akram Lodhi Saltwater archives : native knowledge in a time of rising tides Joy Lehuanani Enomoto and D. Kealii MacKenzie Global environmental harm internal frontiers and indigenous protective ontologies Ajay Parasram and Lisa Tilley No migration repatriation : spiritual visionings and political limitations of Rastafari repatriation to Ethiopia Ijahnya Christian Is a decolonised university possible in a colonial society Andile Mngxitama Alternative global imaginaries : introduction Wandas dream : Daoist world politics in five acts L.H.M. Ling Civilizing process or civilizing mission Toward a post Western understanding of human security Giorgio Shani Dialogical international relations : Gandhi Tagore and self transformation Aparna Devare Telling a tale : gender knowledge and the subject in Nepal Rahel Kunz and Archana Thapa Du Bois Ghana and Cairo jazz : the geo politics of Malcolm X Hisham Aidi Blesi Doub. Heridas Dobles. Dual wounds. Re writing the island Alanna Lockward African violet : hybrid of circumstance Denize LeDeatte