How deeply engrained is euro-americanism in the way we perceive, research and respond to what happens in the world? What is postcolonial theory? What can we learn from the patriarchal mindset of opposites/binaries construction?
A first look into Postcolonial Theory applied to IR.
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Recommended readings of this episode:
- The Wretched of the Earth, Black Skins and White Masks, Frantz Fanon
- The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi
- Orientalism, Edward Said
- Can the Subaltern Speak?, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations, Alina Sajed
- The Postcolonial Perspective: Why We Need to Decolonize Norms, Charlotte Epstein
- Decolonising International Relations?, Beyond Visible Entanglements: Connected Histories of the International, Zeynep Gulsah Capan
- The Coloniality of Gender, Maria Lugones
- The Coloniality of Power: Toward De-Colonization, Anibal Quijano
