The postcolonial subject : claiming politics, governing others in late modernity / Vivienne Jabri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jabri, Vivienne, 1958- author.

Series:

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book places the lens on postcolonial agency and resistance in a social and geopolitical context that has witnessed great transformations in international politics. What does postcolonial politics mean in a late modern context of interventions that seek to govern postcolonial populations? Drawing on historic and contemporary articulations of agency and resistance and highlighting voices from the postcolonial world, the book explores the transition from colonial modernity to the late modern postcolonial era. It shows that at each moment wherein the claim to politics is made, the p

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the past in the present; 1 Tracing the postcolonial subject; An epistemological quest for the postcolonial subject; On temporal trajectories; The spatial and the postcolonial; 2 Policing access to the modern: power, fear, resistance; Narratives of resistance; Culture and the politics of control; Counter-insurgency: violence, fear, anxiety; 3 Resistance as the claim to politics; Claiming the right to politics; Locating the subject of politics; Fanon's negativity; Claiming the international

Tracing the postcolonial subject into late modernity4 Reclaiming the international: resistance in cosmopolitan space; Declaring independence, claiming the right to (international) politics; Political community and the postcolonial state; The postcolonial state, resistance, and the international; 5 Governing others: war and operations of power in late modernity; When power is rendered cosmopolitan; Liberal cosmopolitanism and the government of populations; Violence and the government of populations; 6 Creative politics and postcolonial agency; The question of postcolonial agency

The late modern postcolonialClaiming the political in late modernity: the Arab Spring; A cosmopolitanism of politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-174) and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-28149-5

1-283-60683-6

9786613919281

1-136-28150-9

0-203-11225-3

9780203112250

OCLC:

811506399