Postcolonialism and political theory
By: edited by Nalini Persram
Contributors: Persram, Nalini, 1964-
Series: Global encounters
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780739116678
Subjects: Postcolonialism; Political science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: pushing politics / Nalini Persram; title: Imperialism and political thought; title: Alterity and modernity (Las Casas, Vitoria and Suárez: 1514-1617) / Enrique Dussel, trans. James Terry; title: Ibn Khaldun and the origins of state politics / Lucian M. Ashworth; title: Power and development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on empire / Graham Finlay; title: From American democracy to French empire: race and the law in Tocqueville's liberalism / John Savage; title: Critical diagnostics and newness; title: Postcolonial dialogics: between Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci / E. San Juan, Jr; title: Problematic people and epistemic decolonization: toward the postcolonial in Africana political thought / Lewis Gordon; title: The gift of double consciousness: some obstacles to grasping the contributions of the colonized / Jane Anna Gordon; title: Symptomatic politics: the banning of Islamic head scarves in French public schools /  Joan W. Scott; title: Edouard Glissant's aesthetics of relation as diversality and creolization / Hwa Yol Jung; title: Indigenous movements of the postcolonial; title: From postcolonial critique to postoccidental paradigm: indigenous peoples' mobilisation and the advancement of new scholarship / Alice Feldman; title: Doing the postcolonial differently / Phillip Darby; title: Postcolonial dialogues and public cyberspace: Pacific insights for cynical times / M. I. Franklin