Bernard Forjwuor (Assistan Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

Critique of Political Decolonization

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the Ghanaian experience as a rich case study, Forjwuor rethinks what colonialism and decolonization mean and offers new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual approaches to engaging the questions of colonialism, political independence, political decolonization, justice, and freedom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 186mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780198871842
• ISBN-10: 0198871848
• Artikelnr.: 67864922

Autorenporträt

Bernard Forjwuor is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is a scholar of black political thought, and his research focuses on the philosophical, critical, and theoretical claims advanced by global black political thinkers. His recent work challenges the ways the colonial and the racial are routinely affirmed as extinguished in the liberal democratic affirmation of sovereignty.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* 1: Introduction: Critical Framework
* 2: Decolonizing Self-Determination: When the Law Conspires Against
its Objective
* 3: On Indirect Rule: Critique of Foundations
* 4: Mythologies of Political Decolonization: How to Critique the Myth
that Forecloses Accounts of the Imperium
* 5: Critique of Liberal Democracy: When the Sacred is Violated
* 6: Critique of Colonial Neoliberalism: How Colonialism is Franchised
* 7: The Constituent Specter of Colonialism: When Death Loses Its
Meaning
* 8: Conclusion: Epistemological Considerations
* Bibliography