Decolonisation And After

Author : Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781787388857

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Against Decolonisation by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Pdf

Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’; it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of ‘decolonisation’ to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds ‘decolonisation’ of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society’s foundations. Worst of all, today’s movement attacks its own cause: ‘decolonisers’ themselves are disregarding, infantilising and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today’s ‘decolonisation’ truly serves African empowerment. Táíwò’s is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.

Author : Laurence Piper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367583984

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Decolonisation After Democracy by Laurence Piper Pdf

Decolonization after Democracy explores ways to think about researching and teaching politics in South Africa based on democratic rather than colonial assumptions and norms. This book was originally published as a special issue of Politikon.

Author : Prasenjit Duara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134537082

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Decolonization by Prasenjit Duara Pdf

Brings together the most cutting edge thinking by major historians of decolonization to create a groundbreaking study of a subject central to recent global history.

Author : Georges Fischer,W. H. Morris-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136277887

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Decolonisation and After by Georges Fischer,W. H. Morris-Jones Pdf

Published in the year 1980, Decolonisation and After is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics.

Author : Dane Keith Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 9780199340491

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Decolonization by Dane Keith Kennedy Pdf

Decolonization is the term commonly used to refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II. This work demonstrates that this process involved considerable violence and instability.

Author : Jan C. Jansen,Jürgen Osterhammel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691192765

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Decolonization by Jan C. Jansen,Jürgen Osterhammel Pdf

The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. This book takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history. Jan Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel trace the decline of European, American, and Japanese colonial supremacy from World War I to the 1990s. Providing a comparative perspective on the decolonization process, they shed light on its key aspects while taking into account the unique regional and imperial contexts in which it unfolded. Jansen and Osterhammel show how the seeds of decolonization were sown during the interwar period and argue that the geopolitical restructuring of the world was intrinsically connected to a sea change in the global normative order. They examine the economic repercussions of decolonization and its impact on international power structures, its consequences for envisioning world order, and the long shadow it continues to cast over new states and former colonial powers alike. Concise and authoritative, Decolonization is the essential introduction to this momentous chapter in history, the aftershocks of which are still being felt today. --

Author : A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479356

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Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics by A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke Pdf

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.

Author : Tracey Banivanua Mar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037595

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Decolonisation and the Pacific by Tracey Banivanua Mar Pdf

This book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.

Author : Nicholas White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317887898

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Decolonisation by Nicholas White Pdf

Concise and accessible, this guide provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. Dr White syntheses recent historical debate by looking at the demise of British imperial power from three main perspectives: the shifting emphases of British imperial policy; the rise of populist, colonial nationalism, and the international political, strategic, and economic environment dominated by the USA and the USSR. The book also positions the British experience within the context of European decolonisation and contains many documents which have only recently become available. Introducing the reader to the key debates it the ideal introductory text on the subject.

Author : Els Bogaerts,Remco Raben
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9067182893

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Beyond Empire and Nation by Els Bogaerts,Remco Raben Pdf

The decolonization of countries in Asia and Africa is one of the momentous events in the twentieth century. But did the shift to independence indeed affect the lives of the people in such a dramatic way as the political events suggest? The authors in this volume look beyond the political interpretations of decolonization and address the issue of social and economic reorientations which were necessitated or caused by the end of colonial rule. The book covers three major issues; public security; the changes in the urban environment, and the reorientation of the economies. Most articles search for comparisons transcending the colonial period to the early decades of independence in Asia and Africa (1930's-1970's). The volume is part of the research programme 'Indonesia across Orders' of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation.

Author : Andrew W.M. Smith,Chris Jeppesen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911307730

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Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa by Andrew W.M. Smith,Chris Jeppesen Pdf

Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power. Praise for Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa '…this ambitious volume represents a significant step forward for the field. As is often the case with rich and stimulating work, the volume gestures towards more themes than I have space to properly address in this review. These include shifting terrains of temporality, spatial Scales, and state sovereignty, which together raise important questions about the relationship between decolonization and globalization. By bringing all of these crucial issues into the same frame,Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa is sure to inspire new thought-provoking research.' - H-France vol. 17, issue 205

Author : Adom Getachew
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691202341

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Worldmaking After Empire by Adom Getachew Pdf

Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations—a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building—obscure just how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important new account of decolonization reveals the full extent of their unprecedented ambition to remake not only nations but the world. Adom Getachew shows that African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists were not solely or even primarily nation-builders. Responding to the experience of racialized sovereign inequality, dramatized by interwar Ethiopia and Liberia, Black Atlantic thinkers and politicians challenged international racial hierarchy and articulated alternative visions of worldmaking. Seeking to create an egalitarian postimperial world, they attempted to transcend legal, political, and economic hierarchies by securing a right to self-determination within the newly founded United Nations, constituting regional federations in Africa and the Caribbean, and creating the New International Economic Order. Using archival sources from Barbados, Trinidad, Ghana, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Worldmaking after Empire recasts the history of decolonization, reconsiders the failure of anticolonial nationalism, and offers a new perspective on debates about today’s international order.

Author : Sylvia Tamale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988832497

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Decolonization and Afro-Feminism by Sylvia Tamale Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714630950

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Decolonisation and After by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Buettner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521113861

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Europe after Empire by Elizabeth Buettner Pdf

A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.