{"product_id":"postcolonial-encounters-in-international-relations-9781138289512","title":"Postcolonial Encounters in International","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePostcolonial Encounters in \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eInternational Relations\u003c\/em\u003e examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the reality of the lives of North African migrants in postcolonial France, with a particular focus on their access to political entitlements such as citizenship and rights. This reality is complicated even further by complex practices of memory undertaken by Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals, who negotiate, in their writings, between the violent memory of the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the contemporary conundrums of postcolonial migration.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book pursues thus the politics of (post)colonial memory by tracing its representations in literary, political, and visual narratives belonging to various Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals, who see themselves as living and writing betwee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a beautifully written argument flowing seamlessly from social theory to literature to visual arts, this book opens a critical dialogue between poststructural and postcolonial approaches to International Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobbie Shilliam, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlina Sajed reveals the colonial roots of post-structuralism, offers fresh conceptualizations of the \"translocal,\" and demonstrates how to decolonize international relations. Focusing on Franco-Maghreb encounters, she locates lost and forgotten themes that both resist and constitute the West. With precision, creativity, and poetic compassion, she retrieves the nuances of the actual world. I am sure this inspiring book will become required reading. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaeem Inayatullah, Professor of Politics, Ithaca College, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlina Sajed’s brilliant work represents a stunning advance in our understandings of International Relations, Postcolonial Studies, immigration, exile, diaspora, violence and memory. Weaving a richly contrapuntal tapestry of the Franco-Maghrebian encounter, Sajed deftly demonstrates the inextricability of poststructuralist thought from its origins in the French colonial project – and its postcolonial legacy that so enduringly divides the ever-subaltern \u003ci\u003eimmigré\u003c\/i\u003e of the \u003ci\u003ebanlieues\u003c\/i\u003e from the neo-cosmopolitan \u003ci\u003eexilé \u003c\/i\u003eof the academy. This is one of those rare works that goes beyond recognizing an extant world of international relations – it radically alters our ways of seeing and understanding the world we live in. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSankaran Krishna, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlina Sajed's innovative and compelling engagement with France's colonial legacy challenges both conventional and poststructural scholars for their inability to overcome a Eurocentric vision of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.‘IR and the world: the politics of encounters’ 2.‘The Post Always Rings Twice? The Algerian War, Post-Structuralism and the Postcolonial in IR theory’3. ‘\u003ci\u003eExilé\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eimmigré\u003c\/i\u003e: the politics of exile and diaspora in the Franco-Maghrebian borderland ‘4. ‘Where have all the natives gone? Spectral Presences and Authenticity in Photographic and Literary Narratives’5. ‘The Franco-Maghrebian Borderland as Cinematic Space: Memory, Trauma, and Authenticity’6. ‘Fanon, Camus and colonial difference: possibilities and limits for decolonial thought and action’ 7. ‘Postcolonial strangers in a cosmopolitan world: postcolonial hybridity and beyond’8. ‘Diasporic identifications, translocal webs, and international relations’ Conclusion. Transgressing International Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019475059031,"sku":"9781138289512","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138289512.jpg?v=1750780384","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postcolonial-encounters-in-international-relations-9781138289512","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}