{"title":"Series: Postcolonial Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePostcolonial Politics\u003c\/strong\u003e series explores the complex legacies and ongoing dialogues shaped by colonial histories. Readers will encounter insightful reflections spanning philosophy, history, and economics that challenge conventional perspectives and illuminate the enduring impact of empire on modern societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending critical analysis with diverse genres, this collection offers works that engage with themes of power, identity, and resistance. Whether through scholarly discourse or narrative expression, these titles invite readers to reconsider the world through a postcolonial lens.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"decolonising-governance-by-paul-carter-9780815380498","title":"Decolonising Governance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePower may be globalised, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues—the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction—are thus treated ‘parochially’ and ineffectually. Not designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArchipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earth’s human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where governance is understood performatively as the continuous establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of decolonisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of analysis, \u003cem\u003eDecolonising Governance\u003c\/em\u003e is an important intervention in the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas, including communicational praxis, land\/sea biodiversity design, bicultural resource management, and the constitution of post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605580398828,"sku":"9780815380498","price":376.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780815380498-decolonising-governance.jpg?v=1778132393"},{"product_id":"from-international-relations-to-relations-international-9781138958487","title":"From International Relations to Relations International","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book brings postcolonial critique directly to bear on established ways of theorising international relations. Its primary concern is with the non-European world and its relations with the North. In advancing an alternative conception of \u003cem\u003erelations international\u003c\/em\u003e, the book draws on alternative source material and different forms of writing. It also features short stories, an interview, and explores the role of poetics and performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe suzerainty of the disciplinary writ is challenged on three primary grounds. Firstly, on its Eurocentrism, which leads the discipline to pass lightly over the distinctive life experiences of most of the world’s people. Secondly, on the discipline’s failure to engage in any systematic way with other bodies of knowledge about the international, such as international political economy, postcolonialism, and development. Lastly, it confronts the ‘top down’ nature of the politics of the discipline, seldom addressing everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom squatter towns to the evasions of the poor, from law through to literature, this work raises a number of problems for international relations. It challenges a colonial mindset, de-centres the West, and opens the field to new approaches that are far more inter-disciplinary than international relations generally allows. 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