Vivienne Jabri

The Postcolonial Subject

Claiming Politics/Governing Others in Late Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

The aim of the book is to reveal spaces of resistance and contestation through an engagement with political theory, literature, and film from the postcolonial world, focussing mainly on the Middle East and South Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415682107
• ISBN-10: 041568210X
• Artikelnr.: 33259003

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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