1st Edition

Against International Relations Norms Postcolonial Perspectives

Edited By Charlotte Epstein Copyright 2017
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

This volume uses the concept of ‘norms’ to initiate a long overdue conversation between the constructivist and postcolonial scholarships on how to appraise the ordering processes of international politics. Drawing together insights from a broad range of scholars, it evaluates what it means to theorise international politics from a postcolonial perspective, understood not as a unified body of... Read more




    1. Introduction: The Postcolonial Perspective, Or Why We Need to Decolonize Norms


    2. [Charlotte Epstein]





    3. Constructivism and the Normative: Dangerous Liaisons?




    4. [Naeem Inayatullah and David L. Blaney]





    5. Colonial Rationalities, Postcolonial Subjectivities, and the International




    6. [Vivienne Jabri]





    7. Civilising Norms and Political Authority in Africa: Reflections Drawn form Psychoanalysis




    8. [Julia Gallagher]





    9. Stop Telling Us How to Behave. Socialization or Infantilization?




    10. [Charlotte Epstein]





    11. Against Localization: Rethinking Compliance and Antagonism in Norm Dynamics




    12. [Charmaine Chua]





    13. International Norms in Postcolonial Time




    14. [Arjun Chowdhury]





    15. On the Therapeutic Use of Racism in Other Countries




    16. [David T. Smith]





    17. The Norm of State-monopolised Violence From a Yemeni Perspective




    18. [Sarah Phillips]





    19. Sovereign Relations: Australia’s ‘Off-shoring’ of Asylum Seekers on Nauru in Historical Perspective




    20. [Anthea Vogl]





    21. In the post-colonial waiting room: How overseas countries and territories play games with the norm of sovereignty




    22. [Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad]





    23. Postcolonial colonialism? The case of Turkey


                  [Zeynep Gülşah Çapan and Ayse Zarakol]

Biography

Charlotte Epstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia.