Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations: The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb

ISBN-13: 9780415781725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 244 str.

Alina Sajed

Opis

This text examines the social and cultural aspects of the politics of postcolonialism. Using North Africa as a paradigmatic example, the author pursues the politics of postcolonial memory by tracing its representations in literary, philosophical, political, and photographic narratives.

Spis treści

1.‘IR and the world: the politics of encounters’ 2.‘The Post Always Rings Twice? The Algerian War, Post-Structuralism and the Postcolonial in IR theory’3. ‘Exilé and immigré: the politics of exile and diaspora in the Franco-Maghrebian borderland ‘4. ‘Where have all the natives gone? Spectral Presences and Authenticity in Photographic and Literary Narratives’5. ‘The Franco-Maghrebian Borderland as Cinematic Space: Memory, Trauma, and Authenticity’6. ‘Fanon, Camus and colonial difference: possibilities and limits for decolonial thought and action’ 7. ‘Postcolonial strangers in a cosmopolitan world: postcolonial hybridity and beyond’8. ‘Diasporic identifications, translocal webs, and international relations’ Conclusion. Transgressing International Relations.

O autorze

Alina Sajed is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. She researches on decolonial/postcolonial approaches to International Relations, with a special focus on Third Wordlism as an intellectual and political project, and on political violence in the context of colonialism/decolonization. Her research has been published in Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, International Studies Review, Globalizations, Citizenship Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Postcolonial Studies. She is also the co-author (with William D. Coleman) of Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization, published by Routledge in 2012.