ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part offers alternative imaginaries of economies of abundance and indigenous futures. It focuses on the question of whether 'security' – a key concept in the study of global politics – should be a point of departure for postcolonial critique. The part also offers an alternative point of departure for feminist engagements with global social struggles for justice. It provides a conversation between three approaches to the question of security. The part discusses how the project that culminated in the 1957 Treaty of Rome, was congenitally a colonial one: one that sought larger scale burden-sharing and institutional locking-in of the African continent at the service of the survival of Europe. The consolidation of prosperity, peace and freedom in the Global North has traditionally been credited to enlightenment and industrialisation wherein modernity congeals as a globally unprecedented system of thought and historic advent.
