Colonial exchanges
Political theory and the agency of the colonized
Edited by Burke Hendrix, Deborah Baumgold
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Scholars of political thought are increasingly interested in the relationship between European political ideas and colonialism, especially the ways in which canonical thinkers supported or opposed colonial practices. So far, however, little attention has been given to the reactions of those in the colonies to these ideas. Individuals in colonial contexts were actively engaged with European ideas: rejecting them, transforming them, deploying them strategically or adopting them as their own. Colonised intellectual and political actors were not passive recipients of European ideas. They were instead active agents, seeking to change the course of their own societies, or European societies, or often both at once. A full reckoning of colonialism's effects requires attention to their choices, their frequent failures and their sometimes surprising political successes. In taking European ideas in new directions, the works of these colonised thinkers offer a new lens on both colonialism and the history of political thought. The contributors to this volume include a mix of political theorists and intellectual historians who seek to grapple with specific thinkers or contexts, to show in detail the ways in which European ideas had unpredictable, complex and sometimes paradoxical impacts in an array of colonial settings. Contributors focus on colonised societies including India, Haiti, the Philippines, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and the settler countries of North America and Oceana, in times ranging from the French Revolution to the modern day. Taken together, they call attention to the intellectual agency of the colonised as a rich field for future study.
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Burke A. Hendrix is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon Deborah Baumgold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Oregon
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date June 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526105646 / 1526105640
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 80 GBP
- Pages288
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions240 x 170 mm
- Biblio NotesIntroduction: When ideas travel: political theory, colonialism, and the history of ideas - Burke A. Hendrix and Deborah Baumgold 1 Intellectual flows and counterflows: the strange case of J. S. Mill - Lynn Zastoupil 2 Rethinking resistance: Spencer, Krishnavarma and The Indian Sociologist - Inder S. Marwah 3 The other Mahatma's naïve monarchism: Phule, Paine, and the appeal to Queen Victoria - Jimmy Casas Klausen 4 The New World 'sans culottes': French revolutionary ideology in Saint Domingue - Johnhenry Gonzalez 5 Confronting colonial otherness: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the limits of imperial legal universalism - Bonny Ibhawoh 6 The Indigenous redemption of liberal universalism - Tim Rowse 7 Troubling appropriations: Pedro Paterno's Filipino deployment of French Lamarckianism - Megan C. Thomas 8 Colonial hesitation, appropriation, and citation: Qasim Amin, empire, and saying No - Murad Idris 9 Marxism and historicism in the thought of Abdullah Laroui - Yasmeen Daifallah Index
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