ISBN:
9780415781725
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (254 p)
Series Statement:
Interventions
Parallel Title:
Print version Postcolonial Encounters with International Relations
DDC:
306.3620961
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the lives of North African migrants in postcolonial France, with a particular focus on their access to political entitlements such as citizenship and rights. This reality is complicated even further by complex practices of memory undertaken by Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals, who negotiate, in their
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; 1. IR and the world: the politics of encounters; The politics of encounters and translocal webs of relations; Literary narratives in the Franco-Maghrebian encounter; Meeting the Franco-Maghrebian intellectual; Memory and authenticity; 2. The post always rings twice? The Algerian War, post-structuralism and the postcolonial in IR theory; Rethinking theory, nativizing discipline(s): disturbing the margins in Robert Young's White Mythologies and Postcolonialism - An Historical Introduction
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Colonial desire and the politics of Algerian intractability: Derrida, Cixous and LyotardThe (im)possibilities of theoretical miscegenation: what is at stake in associating post-structuralism and postcoloniality in International Relations? Relations?; 3. Exilé and immigré: the politics of exile and diaspora in the Franco-Maghrebian borderland; The politics of language in the Franco-Maghrebian borderland; Flirting with hybridity and transnational citizenship; The diasporic intellectual and her others
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4. Where have all the natives gone? Spectral presences and authenticity in photographic and literary narrativesWhere have all the natives gone? The (in)authentic native woman in the colonial harem; The 'native' as spectral presence in photography and literary narratives; 5. The Franco-Maghrebian borderland as cinematic space: Memory, trauma and authenticity; Tropes of memory; Locating the new Europe and the Franco-Maghrebian borderland: the colonial past in the postcolonial present; The politics of authenticity
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6. Fanon, Camus and colonial difference: possibilities and limits for decolonial thought and actionPolitics in exile: between strangeness and alienation; Irreconcilable visions of (post)colonial futures: Camus, Fanon and the Algerian War; Colonial difference and the decolonial promise: possibilities and limits; 7. Postcolonial strangers in a cosmopolitan world: postcolonial hybridity and beyond; Migration in International Relations: moving beyond or around the state?; Postcolonial strangers: Maghrébins, immigrés and beurs - who is the real indigène?
Description / Table of Contents:
8. Diasporic identifications, translocal webs and International RelationsIR and the problem of colonial difference; The Maghreb: 'the difference that cannot be told'?; On the lures of diaspora and transnationalism; Transgressing International Relations: Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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