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Against International Relations Norms : Postcolonial Perspectives.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317353669
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 327.101
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Biographies -- 1 The postcolonial perspective: why we need to decolonize norms -- 2 Constructivism and the normative: dangerous liaisons? -- 3 Colonial rationalities, postcolonial subjectivities, and the international -- 4 Civilising norms and political authority in Africa: reflections drawn from psychoanalysis -- 5 Stop telling us how to behave: socialization or infantilization? -- 6 Against localization: rethinking compliance and antagonism in norm dynamics -- 7 International norms in postcolonial time -- 8 On the therapeutic uses of racism in other countries -- 9 The norm of state-monopolised violence from a Yemeni perspective -- 10 Sovereign relations? Australia's 'off-shoring' of asylum seekers on Nauru in historical perspective -- 11 In the post-colonial waiting room: how overseas countries and territories play games with the norm of sovereignty -- 12 Postcolonial colonialism?: the case of Turkey -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Biographies -- 1 The postcolonial perspective: why we need to decolonize norms -- 2 Constructivism and the normative: dangerous liaisons? -- 3 Colonial rationalities, postcolonial subjectivities, and the international -- 4 Civilising norms and political authority in Africa: reflections drawn from psychoanalysis -- 5 Stop telling us how to behave: socialization or infantilization? -- 6 Against localization: rethinking compliance and antagonism in norm dynamics -- 7 International norms in postcolonial time -- 8 On the therapeutic uses of racism in other countries -- 9 The norm of state-monopolised violence from a Yemeni perspective -- 10 Sovereign relations? Australia's 'off-shoring' of asylum seekers on Nauru in historical perspective -- 11 In the post-colonial waiting room: how overseas countries and territories play games with the norm of sovereignty -- 12 Postcolonial colonialism?: the case of Turkey -- Index.

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.

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