ABSTRACT

"Chowdhry and Nair, along with the authors of this volume, make a timely, vital, and deeply necessary intervention in international relations - one that informs theoretically, enriches our knowledge of the world through its narratives, and forces us to confront the differentiated wholeness of our humanity. Readers will want to emulate the skills and sensibilities they offer.."
Naeem Inayatullah, Ithaca College

This work uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring or world politics. It addresses further themes central to postcolonial theory, such as the impact of representation on power relations, the relationship between global capital and power and the space for resistance and agency in the context of global power asymmetries.

chapter 1|32 pages

INTRODUCTION

Power in a postcolonial world: race, gender, and class in international relations

chapter 2|23 pages

POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM

International reality and modes of inquiry

chapter 3|26 pages

SITUATING RACE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The dialectics of civilizational security in American immigration

chapter 4|33 pages

BEYOND HEGEMONIC STATE(MENT)S OF NATURE

Indigenous knowledge and non-state possibilities in international relations

chapter 7|14 pages

IN ONE INNINGS

National identity in postcolonial times

chapter 8|25 pages

The “new cold war”: secularism, orientalism, and postcoloniality SHAM PA BIS WA S

Secularism, orientalism, and postcoloniality

chapter 9|16 pages

A STORY TO BE TOLD

IR, postcolonialism, and the discourse of Tibetan (trans)national identity

chapter 10|29 pages

POSTCOLONIAL INTERROGATIONS OF CHILD LABOR

Human rights, carpet trade, and Rugmark in India

chapter 11|31 pages

HUMAN RIGHTS AND POSTCOLONIALITY

Representing Burma