1st Edition

The Postcolonial Subject Claiming Politics/Governing Others in Late Modernity

By Vivienne Jabri Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. Tracing the Postcolonial Subject  2. Policing Access to the Modern: Power, Fear, Resistance  3. Resistance as the Claim to Politics  4. Reclaiming the International: Resistance in Cosmopolitan Space  5. Governing Others: War and Operations of Power in Late Modernity  6. Creative Politics and Postcolonial Agency  

Biography

Vivienne Jabri is Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She is author of 3 books: Mediating Conflict (Manchester University Press, 1990); Discourses on Violence (Manchester University Press, 1996); and War and the Transformation of Global Politics (Palgrave, 2007). She is co-editor of 2 books: with Stephen Chan, Mediation in Southern Africa (Macmillan, 1993); and with Eleanor O’Gorman, Women, Culture and International Relations (Lynne Rienner, 1999). She has contributed articles to the journals, Millennium, Review of International Studies, Security Dialogue, Alternatives, and International Political Sociology. She has held funding from the European Commission frameworks 5 and 6. Her most recent book, War and the Transformation of Global Politics (Palgrave 2007), is to appear in paperback in spring 2010