Indomitable Others and Liberal Violences : Critique, Contestation, and Resistance in World Politics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cárdenas Alfonso, María.

Contributor:

Scauso

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This groundbreaking edited collection brings together diverse global perspectives to examine struggles against liberalisms through decolonial, postcolonial, Indigenous, feminist, queer, and intersectional lenses.

Contents:

Front Cover

Indomitable Others and Liberal Violences: Critique, Contestation, and Resistance in World Politics

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Introduction: May it Bloom

Let this be the mulch. Let this be the ground where something else might take root.

Let the spores land where they will

Note

Part I Liberal Violences: Death and Decay

1 The Traps of Liberalism's Many Lies

Liberalism as necropolitics

Racisms, sexisms, and heterosexisms of liberal necropolitics

The poisons of liberalisms' futurism

Could a pluriversal world be (otherwise)?

Notes

References

2 Inclusion for Pluriversality: Toward Another IR Pedagogy

Introduction

The paradox and complications of Westphalian sovereignty, especially for Oceania

Nauru: the ghosts of phosphate extraction

Tonga: the continuous oceanic monarchy

Vanuatu: microstate as microcosm

Summary and conclusions

3 Genocide in Myanmar: Citizenship as a Technology of Hetero-​/​mononormativity

The genocide: a brief history

Stereotyping the Rohingya

Citizenship and genocidal violence

The 'rationality' of the citizen: Bamar , Buddhist, or Bengali

The axis of polygamy and monogamy

Heteronormativity: constructing Rohingya men and women as gendered threats

Conclusion

4 Institutionalized State Control of Justice, Violence, and Death

Finding (and critiquing) the state

State violence in Colombia

Forced disappearance as a tool of violence

The search for the disappeared in Colombia

State control of security, violence, and death

Acknowledgments

5 Sodomy, Sovereignty, and Empire: The Neoliberal Sexual State in Postcolonial India

Sexuality, race, and colonialism.

Co-​constitution of sexuality, capitalism, and empire

Sodomy and the un/​making of the postcolonial state: India and sexual global power

Genealogy of sodomy law

The (un)making of the idea of postcolonial India and the constitution of the somewhat queer Indian citizen

Toward a decolonial sexual politics

6 'We're Going to Reconciliation the Shit Out of You': Canadian Liberal Settler Violence and the Possibilities for True Reconciliation

Defining the liberal settler colonial state

Defining settler colonialism

Defining classical liberalism

The tensions between self-​Indigenization and 'Reconciliation'

The 'fa ç ade' of multiculturalism in Canada

The double-​edged sword of Reconciliation

Historical overview of Reconciliation support by Canada

Legal frameworks (UNDRIP, TRC, and so on)

Canadian militarized action against Indigenous peoples

Social pressure for Indigenous peoples to assimilate

Reconciliation is not supposed to be comfortable

Vulnerability and discomfort as a part of atoning and accountability

Making peace with the past is not about settlers: letting Indigenous peoples take center stage

Indigenous presences as 'shoals/​portages'

Indigenous resurgence as reconciliatory framework

7 Beyond Dichotomies: State-​Making in Iraq, Social Reproduction, and Education

Layla : mother of the nation

Education and the making of the subject

Navigating imperial legacies: nationalism and educational policy

Transformations under Ba'th rule: education, womanhood, and national identity

Conclusion to Part I: Critique and Denunciation

Part II Resistances and Other-​worldings: Rebirths.

8 Defending the Divergent Co-​existence Between Ayllu Communities and the Colonial State in Bolivia: An Ontological Reading of Resistance Against Colonial Liberalism

Colonial origin of the declaration of impossibility of Indigenous worlds

Ayllus' relational practices exceed what is declared impossible

The pact of divergence: an agreement for co-​existence

The liberal unmaking of the divergent pact and ayllu politics of resistance

Conclusion: Bringing ontological conflicts to a politics of resistance

9 Resisting the White Imaginary: Indigenous, Afrocolombian, Black, Raizal, and Rrom Peace Activists in Colombia

Uni​versalizing violence within the context of the armed conflict

Ethnic(ized) activism in the 2016 peace agreement and its aftermath

Dealing with difference under coloniality

On leadership and activism-​or the limits of the 'noble savage'

Learning from the border

Acknowledgment

Bibliography

10 Repudiating the 'Doctrine of Discovery'

Liberal Christianity: precursors and legacies

The authoritative claims of discovering worlds

Repudiating the doctrine of discovery: revealing striations of meaning and power

The breadth of repudiation

Repudiating the universalist political economy of empire and claims of Christian superiority

Discursive maneuvers: extant and immanent

Relationality and pluriversality across striated meaning and power

11 Praying Against Extractivism: Epistemological Humility and the Pluriverse

Self and Other in the fake world

Case focus: Winnipeg

The humblings of prayer in pluriversal thought

Conclusion to Part II: Other-worlding and Resistance.

Part III Pluriversalizing: Growing Pains and the Complexity of Co-​living

12 'Our Way that was from Before Words Travelled': Democracy as Liberal Discipline and Pluriversal Connector

Liberalism, democracy, and liberal democracy

Pluriversality and pluriversal dialogue

Zapatista 'democracy'

La Otra Campa ñ a as pluriversal democratic dialogue

13 Over-​coming Liberalism: 'Care of the Self' and Ethical Horizons for the Pluriverse

Foucault's 'care of the self'

Pluriversal possibilities: abstaining from interfering with others, focusing on transforming ourselves

14 Concluding Thoughts : : Denouncing Liberalisms, Worlding Resistances, and Sustaining Tensions for a 'Weak' Community in Difference

Decay, deconstruction, and critique: weakening liberalisms for flourishing differences

Differences, resistance, and other-​worlding: valuing subalterns

Pluriversality and a 'weak ontology' as a connector

Conclusion: The risks of connections and futurities

Index.

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ISBN:

1-5292-4440-4

9781529244403

OCLC:

1584488627