1st Edition
Indian and South African Labour Responses to the International Labour Organization’s Green Initiatives Through the Eyes of the Colonized
Introduction. The Antagonist Chapter 1. Why Postcolonialism? Chapter 2. Labor’s Battle Against Orientalism in Pre-Liberation India And South Africa Chapter 3. Union Effectiveness in India And South Africa In Liberation Processes Chapter 4. Fight For Labor Autonomy in Post-Liberation South Africa And India Chapter 5. The ILO’s Colonial Legacy – A Case of Savior’s Complex Chapter 6. Rientalism in the ILO’s Green Initiatives and Reactions by Indian and South African Delegates Chapter 7. The Ilo’s Green Projects in India and South Africa and Orientalist Discourses Within the ILO Chapter 8. Conclusion
Biography
Sharmini Nair is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Lindenwood University, USA. She specialises in the impact of postcolonialism on the ways that green policies are produced and accepted by states and labor in the Global South, and she teaches comparative politics and international relations.
"Author Sharmi Nair applies the lens of post-colonial theory to explain variations in the way that organized labor in two prominent nations of the Global South, India and South Africa, responded to the International Labor Organization’s environmental policies. Drawing on concepts articulated by post-colonial writers, particularly the idea of mimicry in the work of theorist Homi Babha, Nair shows how the different organized labor responses to ILO environmental directives of a rejectionist India and accommodationist South Africa each express mimicry and a post-colonial posture resisting the ILO’s global Green Initiative guidance that still tends to treat these labor movements as subalterns in the grand project of advancing international environmental sustainability. Nair’s study provides a useful corrective to narratives and policy prescriptions that fail to adequately respect the experience and voices of previously colonized people in the quest to advance global environmental stewardship."
Stephen Mumme, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
