The Postcolonial Subject: Claiming

The aim of the book is to reveal spaces of resistance and contestation through an engagement with political theory, literature and film from the postcolonial world, focussing mainly on the Middle East and South Asia. One of the main themes looks to postcolonial interpretations of the international " at the nexus of colonial modernity on the one hand and cosmopolitan late modernity on the other. In seeking to locate the subject of what we might understand as the postcolonial international, the aim is to trace the postcolonial subject "s trajectory of movement â€œ from colonial modernity, to the postcolonial international, and now in the present, the late modern cosmopolitan â€œ as the subject comes to be reproduced, re-formed, re-inscribed, and transformed.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: the past in the present	p. 1
Tracing the postcolonial subject	p. 8
An epistemological quest for the postcolonial subject	p. 13
On temporal trajectories	p. 19
The spatial and the postcolonial	p. 26
Policing access to the modern: power, fear, resistance	p. 31
Narratives of resistance	p. 34
Culture and the politics of control	p. 45
Counter-insurgency: violence, fear, anxiety	p. 49
Resistance as the claim to politics	p. 57
Claiming the right to politics	p. 61
Locating the subject of politics	p. 68
Fanon's negativity	p. 71
Claiming the international	p. 73
Tracing the postcolonial subject into late modernity	p. 80
Reclaiming the international: resistance in cosmopolitan space	p. 82
Declaring independence, claiming the right to (international) politics	p. 85
Political community and the postcolonial state	p. 94
The postcolonial state, resistance, and the international	p. 100
Governing others: war and operations of power in late modernity	p. 108
When power is rendered cosmopolitan	p. 111
Liberal cosmopolitanism and the government of populations	p. 115
Violence and the government of populations	p. 126
Creative politics and postcolonial agency	p. 131
The question of postcolonial agency	p. 132
The late modern postcolonial	p. 134
Claiming the political in late modernity: the Arab Spring	p. 135
A cosmopolitanism of politics	p. 147
Notes	p. 152
Bibliography	p. 165
Index	p. 175
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