Decolonizing Grand Theories

Author : Sanjeev Kumar H.M.
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819948413

Get Book

Decolonizing Grand Theories by Sanjeev Kumar H.M. Pdf

This book examines the modes by which the grand theories of International Relations can be restructured at the level of meta-theory. It emphasizes the inability of grand theories to make sense of international relations in postcolonial societies and argues to engage in such restructuring in the domain of ontology. This is done by making a historical sociological defence toward adopting mid-level theories in IR. It is a critique of the meta-theoretical foundations of Kenneth Waltz's grand theory of neorealism, by pivoting itself upon the framework of postcolonial ontology. Dwelling upon Mohammed Ayoob’s mid-level theory of subaltern realism, it argues for undertaking the task of restructuring International Relations at the level of meta-theory, largely in the sphere of ontology. It explains how the thrust of grand theories such as neorealism, on ontological singularity can be circumvented. Owing to this, International Relations can experience a meta-theoretical transformation that may manifest in the broader engagement of the discipline itself, with the very conception of ontological multiplicity.

Author : Margaret Kohn,Keally McBride
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199837848

Get Book

Political Theories of Decolonization by Margaret Kohn,Keally McBride Pdf

Political Theories of Decolonization provides an introduction to some of the seminal texts of postcolonial political theory. The difficulty of founding a new regime is an important theme in political theory, and the intellectual history of decolonization provides a rich--albeit overlooked--opportunity to explore it. Many theorists have pointed out that the colonized subject was a divided subject. This book argues that the postcolonial state was a divided state. While postcolonial states were created through the struggle for independence, they drew on both colonial institutions and reinvented pre-colonial traditions. Political Theories of Decolonization illuminates how many of the central themes of political theory such as land, religion, freedom, law, and sovereignty are imaginatively explored by postcolonial thinkers. In doing so, it provides readers access to texts that add to our understanding of contemporary political life and global political dynamics.

Author : Luke Amadi,Fidelis Allen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781666901252

Get Book

Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa by Luke Amadi,Fidelis Allen Pdf

This book confronts colonial development models to decolonize the methodologies and epistemologies of development in Africa and advocate for Afrocentric alternatives. Using postcolonial, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the authors advocate for a new direction of development that incorporates indigenous-Afrocentric alternatives.

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni,Morgan Ndlovu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000411447

Get Book

Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni,Morgan Ndlovu Pdf

Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking work that highlights the resurgence and insurgence of Marxism and decolonization, and the ways in which decolonization and decoloniality are grounded in the contributions of Black Marxism, the Radical Black tradition, and anti-colonial liberation traditions. Featuring leading and young scholars and activists, this book is a practical scholarly intervention that shows how democratic Marxism and decoloniality might converge to provoke planetary decolonization in the 21st century. At the centre of this process, enabled by both increasing human entanglements and the resilience of racism, the volume's contributors analyse converging forces of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-patriarchy, anti-sexism, Indigenous People’s movements, eco-feminist formations, and intellectual movements levelled against Eurocentrism. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and intellectuals interested in Marxism, decolonization, and transnational activism.

Author : Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez,Manuela Boatcă,Sérgio Costa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317153764

Get Book

Decolonizing European Sociology by Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez,Manuela Boatcă,Sérgio Costa Pdf

Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes like modernity, border epistemology, migration and 'the South', this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the new theoretical developments, such as postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and whether they can be described as the decolonization of the discipline. With contributions from a truly international team of leading social scientists, this volume constitutes a unique and tightly focused exploration of the challenges presented by the decolonization of the discipline of sociology.

Author : Kagendo Mutua,Beth Blue Swadener
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791459799

Get Book

Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Contexts by Kagendo Mutua,Beth Blue Swadener Pdf

International scholars share their experiences with the challenges inherent in representing indigenous cultures and decolonizing cross-cultural research.

Author : Aditya Nigam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9388630467

Get Book

Decolonizing Theory by Aditya Nigam Pdf

Author : Ato Quayson,Ankhi Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009299978

Get Book

Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson,Ankhi Mukherjee Pdf

George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from specific decolonial perspectives, with evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas. The significance of Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum lies in the complete overhaul it proposes for the study of English literature. It reconnects English studies, the humanities, and the modern, international university to issues of racial and social justice. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848139527

Get Book

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Pdf

'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.

Author : Peter Childs,R. J. Patrick Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641162743

Get Book

An Introduction to Post-colonial Theory by Peter Childs,R. J. Patrick Williams Pdf

Author : Sanjeev Kumar H. M.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003817741

Get Book

Deconstructing India-Pakistan Relations by Sanjeev Kumar H. M. Pdf

This book examines the complex dynamics of India-Pakistan relations, by situating the same in the postcolonial setting of the subcontinent. In pursuit of this, the book analyses the impact of the linkages between the postcolonial processes of state-making and the structuring of political communities, upon the evolution of the problématique of state security in South Asia. For the purpose of undertaking this task, the author deconstructs the countries’ colonial history, with an aim to mapp its impact on the making of the foreign policy of Pakistan. Drawing primarily from colonial discourse theory and historical sociology, the book links the trajectory of Pakistan’s international politics, to its domestic politics and “weak state” inheritances. By doing this, it offers a stimulating treatment of the history of the country’s troubled postcolonial relations with India. This has been done in the book, by presenting the modes by which the religio-military and politico-bureaucratic classes that constitute the power elite in Pakistan, tended to have moulded an India-centred State security problématique. This book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian security, India-Pakistan relations and the defence and foreign policy of Pakistan.

Author : H. Wiarda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230112612

Get Book

Grand Theories and Ideologies in the Social Sciences by H. Wiarda Pdf

This book analyzes the main competing grand theories in the social sciences, including developmentalism, dependency analysis, Marxism, institutionalism, rational choice, Freudianism, environmentalism, sociobiology, neurosciences, and transitions to democracy.

Author : Amy Allen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231540636

Get Book

The End of Progress by Amy Allen Pdf

While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst—have defended ideas of progress, development, and modernity and have even made such ideas central to their normative claims. Can the Frankfurt School's goal of radical social change survive this critique? And what would a decolonized critical theory look like? Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its notion of progress as a political imperative, so eloquently defended by Adorno. Critical theory, according to Allen, is the best resource we have for achieving emancipatory social goals. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future.

Author : Aditya Nigam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9389812356

Get Book

Decolonizing Theory by Aditya Nigam Pdf

Author : Frédérique Apffel-Marglin,Stephen A. Marglin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191583964

Get Book

Decolonizing Knowledge by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin,Stephen A. Marglin Pdf

Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of `externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The very word `development' and its cognates `underdevelopment' and `developing' confidently mark the `first' world's as the future of the `third'. This book argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development that comes out of modern Western view of knowledge is a contemporary form of colonialism. The authors - covering topics as diverse as the theory of knowledge underlying the work of John Maynard Keynes, what the renowned British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane was looking for when he migrated to India, the knowledge of Mexican and Indian peasants - propose a pluralistic vision and decolonization of knowledge: the replacement of one-way transfers of knowledge and technology by dialogue and mutual learning.