Postcolonial encounters in international relations : the politics of transgression in the Maghreb / Alina Sajed

Author: Sajed, Alina
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
Physical Description: xiii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.

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Interventions (Routledge (Firm))

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.IR and the world: the politics of encounters -- The politics of encounters and translocal webs of relations -- Literary narratives in the Franco-Maghrebian encounter -- Meeting the Franco-Maghrebian intellectual -- Memory and authenticity -- 2.The post always rings twice? The Algerian War, post-structuralism and the postcolonial in IR theory -- Rethinking theory, nativizing discipline (s): disturbing the margins in Robert Young's White Mythologies and Postcolonialism - An Historical Introduction -- Colonial desire and the politics of Algerian intractability: Derrida, Cixous and Lyotard -- The (im)possibilities of theoretical miscegenation: what is at stake in associating post-structuralism and postcoloniality in International Relations? -- 3.Exile and immigre: the politics of exile and diaspora in the Franco-Maghrebian borderland -- The politics of language in the Franco-Maghrebian borderland -- Flirting with hybridity and transnational citizenship -- The diasporic intellectual and her others -- 4.Where have all the natives gone? Spectral presences and authenticity in photographic and literary narratives -- Where have all the natives gone? The (in) authentic native woman in the colonial harem -- The `native' as spectral presence in photography and literary narratives -- 5.The Franco-Maghrebian borderland as cinematic space: memory, trauma and authenticity -- Tropes of memory -- Locating the new Europe and the Franco-Maghrebian borderland: the colonial past in the postcolonial present -- The politics of authenticity -- 6.Fanon, Camus and colonial difference: possibilities and limits for decolonial thought and action -- Politics in exile: between strangeness and alienation -- Irreconcilable visions of (post) colonial futures: Camus, Fanon and the Algerian War -- Colonial difference and the decolonial promise: possibilities and limits -- 7.Postcolonial strangers in a cosmopolitan world: postcolonial hybridity and beyond -- Migration in International Relations: moving beyond or around the state? -- Postcolonial strangers: Maghrebins, immigres and beurs - who is the real indigene? -- 8.Diasporic identifications, translocal webs and International Relations -- IR and the problem of colonial difference -- The Maghreb: `the difference that cannot be told'? -- On the lures of diaspora and transnationalism -- Transgressing International Relations: concluding remarks.

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9780415781725 (hardback)
0415781728 (hardback)
9780203497043 (ebook)
020349704X (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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