Postcolonial IR: What is Postcolonial International Relations? Postcolonialism & Intl Relations

Postcolonial IR | What is Postcolonial International Relations
In this video I discuss how postcolonial theory could help students of International relations (IR) to make their work and understanding more global and less Eurocentric.
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What is Postcolonialism?
Since I claim to be a postcolonialism scholar, I think it is apt to include a brief description of my field of study. In my view, Postcolonialism ( also written as Post Colonialism or Post-Colonialism) is a dynamic field of literary study that focuses on the history of colonialism and native responses to the colonial policies and life after colonialism formally ends. The field of postcolonialism also offers insights into the literature and culture of the the former European colonies and their struggles after the end of colonialism.
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[@geopoliticsweekly]

Excellent video! Additionally, Edward Said’s essays ‘Traveling Theory’ and ‘Traveling Theory Reconsidered’ are valuable for IR. I used them as the basis of my master’s thesis in IR to chart the development of Marxism from its development from the capitalist core to the non-capitalist periphery in China and used that to ascertain to what extent today’s CCP’s views on human rights are a result of Marxist philosophy.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you so much for your valuable insights. As I said in the video, these are my tentative thoughts and your participation makes this video’s content even richer.

[@kirkor8799]

In the 1990's, after the political transformation, the entire Polish industry was privatized (read given over to "multinational" corporations) which, along with other symptoms and the final result, closely corresponds to the described method of mastery through this type of colonization. The people's hopes and confusion were exploited for this purpose, which is interesting, because it happened in the center of Europe mainly in the last decade of the millennium.
The entire Western press neither mentioned this process, which, after all, must have been well known to them.
Is it necessary to invent a separate kind of "post-colonialism" for this? :)
Thank you.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Actually, a lot of scholars who specifically focus on neoliberalism do cover the impact of privatization on all people regardless of their region. The destruction of unions in the US and Europe is part of that process. So, I would say not necessarily a new form of postcolonialism but rather reading the available critiques of neoliberalism and its impact. I mention a few good books here: th-cam.com/video/7PrZHqN-_w8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3ZumMoxq2VoscXxe

[@NoReprensentationWithoutTax]

very important topic thank you

[@masoodraja]

You are welcome!

[@idonnow2]

14:52 I don't really agree with this particular analysis because the African "big man" predates neoliberalism, the developmentalist state model popular in the 60's and 70's does not seem to have been exclusive at all with the establishment of dictatorial regimes, think Idi Amin in Uganda, The Derg in Ehtiopia or Gowon in Nigeria etc. The most salient counterexample would be Zaire, in which modern neoliberalism actually brought the *opposite* of what is being suggested here, it brought an end to the cold war era international support for Mobutu as well as the breakup of the developmentalist model by the neoliberal model, which in turn contributed to political collapse and anarchy, rather than authoritarianism (though you could term this instead descentralized rather than centralized authoritarianism).
Of course this doesn't mean that i disagree with the broader framework of postcolonial analysis, rather i'd place the rise of the strongman as the result of the inherent contradictions of the logic of the "nation" state imposed on societies where such notion of a unified national consciousness organically does not exist, the material constraints imposed by the commodity export economic model which lends itself straighforwardly to state domination over strategic productive and commercial forces, and the understanding that the institution of the state, *especially* a direct successor of a colonial state, is inherently violent in its centralizing tendencies, an idea which eurocentric thought can pretend does not define the European system by simply ignoring the extremely bloody state making process in European history.
Then again the neoliberal era at this point encompasses a greater share of postcolonial African history than the developmentalist era, so it's still completely valid to talk about the ways in which neoliberalism has helped in destabilizing African economies and difficulting the establishment and continuity of the democratic institutions that are ironically touted to go hand in hand with the "free" market.

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. Yes, I agree. Perhaps I didn’t add enough details from Mbembe, as he also links the systems in practice in Africa to the legacies of colonialism, especially because the systems introduced were inherently undemocratic. Thank you for sharing your valuable thoughts.

[@aroojmaqbool111]

Nice

[@masoodraja]

Thank you

[@ahmadshahabdali4748]

I'm a student of International Relations at Karachi University Pakistan, how can I contact you to discuss this further because I'm interested to theorize the Asian view or the colonial view of International Politics

[@masoodraja]

Thank you. I am sorry but I cannot offer individual consultations at this time.