Recent scholarship in political theory has focused on the treatment of colonialism in the writings of canonical thinkers such as Locke, Burke, Mill, Diderot, Tocqueville, Smith, and Kant, revealing the extent to which the subject of colonialism and imperialism dominated the minds of great
thinkers as the colonial project took place. While such scholarship provides fascinating insight into the possible problems of enlightenment thought, it tends to ignore the voices of thinkers who spoke from the position of the colonized.
This book will fill a gap in postcolonial
political critique by serving as an introduction to theorists who struggled with the question of how to found a new political order when the existing ideas and institutions were implicated in a history of domination. Looking at the writings of Gandhi, Ngugi, al-Afghani, and Mariategui, among several
others, the authors aim to explain how the work of these thinkers engage in thematic continuities - constituting "postcolonial political thought" - and add to liberal democratic understandings of political power, as well as illuminate how many of the central questions of political theory are
imaginatively explored by postcolonial writers.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Political Theory and Decolonization
1. Postcolonial Political Theory and the Problem of Foundations
2. Islamic Political Thought and Imperialism
3. Grounds of Resistance: Land as Revolutionary Foundation
4. Self-Determination Reconsidered:
Revolutions of Decolonization and Postcolonial Citizenship
5. Colonialism and the State of Exception
6. The Philosophy of Liberation
Conclusion: Gandhi and the Critique of Western Civilization
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Margaret Kohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Kelly McBride is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco.
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