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Seminar
SoSe 23: Postcolonial Perspectives on American IR
Anam Soomro
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The purpose of this block seminar course is to introduce students to a rich and varied tradition of postcolonial and decolonial thought in the study of American international relations. The seminars will engage with prominent texts of postcolonial scholarship over the decades, and introduce students to the limits and possibilities of critique as a mode of engaging international politics beyond the scope of a Western centric or an American dominated social science. Students will be familiarised with major thinkers, map key debates and concerns that have animated postcolonial international relations thought, and be in the position to appreciate the diversity of research agendas and methodological positions that sit under the umbrella of postcolonial/decolonial IR.
The course is divided into the following sections:
What need exists for a postcolonial or decolonial International Relations?
Eurocentrism, Imperialism and Racism: A Debate
Thinking Beyond the State-Centric ‘Inclusion Thesis’
Bandung and the Third World Project
Exclusion, Subordination, and the Productive effects of Power
The Possibilities of a Decolonial Science
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6 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2023-04-20 14:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-05-04 14:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-05-11 14:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-06-01 14:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-06-08 14:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-07-06 14:00 - 18:00