Decolonizing enlightenment : transnational justice, human rights and democracy in a postcolonial world / Nikita Dhawan (ed.).

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Opladen : Barbara Budrich, 2014.
Description
335 p. ; 21 cm.

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Affirmative sabotage of the master's tools : the paradox of postcolonial Enlightenment / Nikita Dhawan
  • Under (post)colonial eyes : Kant, Foucault, and critique / Karin Hostettler
  • Hegel and the Black Atlantic : universalism, humanism and relation / Jamila M. H. Mascat
  • Uncanny entanglements : Holocaust, colonialism, and Enlightenment / María do Mar Castrol Varela
  • A historical claim for justice : re-configuring the Enlightenment for and from the margins / Ulrike Hamann
  • Feminist justice beyond the law : Spivakian "ab-use" of Enlightenment textuality in imagining the other / Sourav Kargupta
  • A modest proposal for transnational justice and political responsibility / Jorma Heier
  • Decolonizing theories of global justice / Anna Millan and Ali Can Yıldırım
  • The other side of the story : human rights, race, and gender from a transatlantic perspective / Julia Suárez-Krabbe
  • Propertization as a civilizing and modernizing mission : land and human rights in the colonial and postcolonial world / Judith Schacherreiter
  • Between postnationality and postcoloniality : human rights and the rights of non-citizens in a "cosmopolitan Europe" / Chenchen Zhang
  • Defensive relativism : universalism, sovereignty, and the postcolonial predicament / Frederick Cowell
  • Democracy's subjections : human rights in contexts of scarcity / Lyn Ossome
  • Statelessness and the power of performance : a reading of resistance in the face of Agamben's sovereign power / Navneet Kumar
  • Provincializing cosmopolitanism : democratic iterations and desubalternization / Aylin Zafer and Anna Millan.
ISBN
  • 9783847400561 (pbk.)
  • 3847400568 (pbk.)
OCLC
879159245
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