The Postcolonial Subject Claiming politics/governing others in late modernity

• Main Author: Jabri, Vivienne
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Interventions
• Subjects: Governance; Government, Resistance to; Imperialism; International Relations; International Relations Theory; Literature; Middle East; Modernity; National liberation movements; Political Theory; Politics; Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism in motion pictures; Security; Subjectivity; Deeper Remit; legacy; cosmopolitanism; Free Verse Movement; Local Political Contestations; Postcolonial Agency; political; Cosmopolitan Government; Total Capture; Policing Access; Biometric Id Card; Modern International Political Economy; late; Local Regimes; Muslim World; international; Postcolonial Disenchantment; Postcolonial Subjectivity; agency; NATO's Intervention; modernity; Liberal Cosmopolitan Projections; Postcolonial Rationality; economy; community; Late Modern Context; Postcolonial State; Aral Sea; Cosmopolitan Terrain; Postcolonial International; Liberal Cosmopolitan; Counter Insurgency; Fanon's Subject; liberal; Postcolonial Subject
• ISBN: 041568210X; 0415682118; 9780415682114; 9780415682107
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203112250

This book places the lens on postcolonial agency and resistance in a social and geopolitical context that has witnessed great transformations in international politics. What does postcolonial politics mean in a late modern context of interventions that seek to govern postcolonial populations? Drawing on historic and contemporary articulations of agency and resistance and highlighting voices from the postcolonial world, the book explores the transition from colonial modernity to the late modern postcolonial era. It shows that at each moment wherein the claim to politics is made, the postcolonial subject comes face to face with global operations of power that seek to control and govern. As seen in the Middle East and elsewhere, these operations have variously drawn on war, policing, as well as pedagogical practices geared at governing the political aspirations of target societies. The book provides a conceptualisation of postcolonial political subjectivity, discusses moments of its emergence, and exposes the security agendas that seek to govern it. Engaging with political thought, from Hannah Arendt, to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Edward Said, among other critical and postcolonial theorists, and drawing on art, literature, and film from the postcolonial world, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical international relations, postcolonial theory, and political theory.