Postcolonizing the International: Working to Change the Way We Are

✍ Scribed by Phillip Darby (editor)

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Postcolonizing the International brings post-colonialism directly into engagement with contemporary international studies, while at the same time reflecting back on the discourse, noting certain blindspots and shortcomings in critique. Reversing the established agenda, it begins with the position of non-European societies and the legacies of colonialism. Two companion essays on knowledge formations about the international and the changing nature of the political are followed by challenging reinterpretations of contemporary global politics focusing on race, skewed development, cultural difference, and everyday life. Individual chapters speak to the significance of consumption and commodification, the need for redirecting Western development stategies, initiatives of the Tibetan cabinet in exile, and sexuality as metaphor.

Contributors: Phillip Darby, Paul James, Gabriel Lafitte, Marcia Langton, Ashis Nandy, Edgar Ng, Sekai Nzenza, Simon Obendorf, Nabaneeta Dev Sen.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
I. Framing the Project
Chapter 1. Reworking Knowledge Conventions
Chapter 2. African Laughter
Chapter 3. Rethinking the Political
Chapter 4. Globalizing Life-Worlds, Consuming Capitalism
II. Situating Dissent
Chapter 5. The Darker Side of Modernity
Chapter 6. Doing Development Differently
Chapter 7. African Grief
Chapter 8. Transforming Tibet from Afar: The Writing of Guidelines for Global Development Agencies Intervening in Tibet
III. Working with Identity
Chapter 9. Sodomy as Metaphor
Chapter 10. Two Selections
Chapter 11. The Changing Complexions of Race
Contributors
Index