Negotiating decolonization in the United Nations
Subtitle: politics of space, identity, and international community
By: Vrushali Patil
Series: New approaches in sociology
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780415958561
Subjects: United Nations; Decolonization; Colonies (International law); Afro-Asian politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-188) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Kinship politics and space, identity and international community prior to legal decolonization: the problem and the query; title: (Re)negotiating the colonial problematic: the UN Charter, the emergence of Asia-Africa, and the anti-colonial challenge to kinship; title: The limits of the anti-colonial critique: anti-colonialists' visions and divisions; title: Contending perspectives?: the overlap between colonialist and anti-colonialist narratives on dependency and sovereignty; title: Masculinity, time and brotherhood: resolving the colonial problematic; title: Conclusion: twentieth century transformations of space, identity and international community; title: Appendix: tables and figures; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index