Political Theories of Decolonization: Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations

by Margaret Kohn

Political Theories of Decolonization provides an introduction to some of the seminal texts of postcolonial political theory. The difficulty of founding a new regime is an important theme in political theory, and the intellectual history of decolonization provides a rich--albeit overlooked--opportunity to explore it.

Many theorists have pointed out that the colonized subject was a divided subject. This book argues that the postcolonial state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195399587
• ISBN13: 9780195399585
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"