Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations : Postcolonial Perspectives.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Race, gender, and culture in International Relations -- Introduction -- Classic works of postcolonialism -- Critical theory -- Gender dimensions of the postcolonial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 2 Postcolonialism and its relevance for International Relations in a globalized world -- Introduction -- The given wisdom -- What difference does postcolonialism make? -- The way forward -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 3 Race in International Relations -- Introduction -- Race as theory -- Race in global society -- Race and global economic development -- Race and security -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 4 Gender, race, and International Relations -- Introduction -- Gender(less) bodies, gendered bodies in IR -- "Ain't I a woman?" -- Gender in International Relations -- Theories of gender in IR -- Liberal feminism -- Standpoint feminism -- Marxist feminism -- Poststructuralist feminism -- Absent questions from most feminist theories -- Intersectionality -- Can we talk about race now? -- Gender and race -- Neoliberal globalization: a gendered and racialized process -- Black and postcolonial feminisms -- Feminist theory versus practice -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 5 Gender, nation, and nationalism -- Introduction -- Nation and nationalism -- The state -- Postcolonial voices -- Feminism, gender and the femininity/masculinity binary -- Nationalism and gender -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 6 Postcolonialism and International Relations: Intersections of sexuality, religion, and race -- Introduction.

The recent internationalization of LGBT politics and consequent resistance -- Thinking beyond 'freedom' and 'oppression' by understanding LGBT identities in the context of modernity -- Case study on LGBT politics and Muslim cultures: The triangulation of homocolonialism -- Prioritizing LGBT Muslims to disrupt homocolonialism -- The analytical requirements of an intersectional approach: anti-essentialist understandings of sexualities, ... -- Further requirements of intersectionality: challenging Islamophobia to undermine Muslim homophobia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further readings -- Bibliography -- 7 Race and global inequality -- Introduction -- Inequalities -- Colonization, racialization, and development -- Capitalism, wealth, and sacrifice -- Global inequality, IR, and the racialization of units -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 8 Discourses of conquest and resistance: International Relations and Anishinaabe diplomacy -- Introduction -- The clash of Western civilizations -- Settler colonialism and the application of conquest discourses -- Odaenuah: a web of interconnected hearts -- Anishinaabe Akina: the border of everything, in unity -- Gchi'naaknigawin: the law of reciprocity -- Orthodox IR's theoretical and practical exclusions -- Anishinaabek international politics -- Conclusion -- Short definition of 'Indigenous' -- Short definition of settler colonialism -- Note -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 9 Security studies, postcolonialism and the Third World -- Introduction -- The postcolonial approach to security -- Conquest and intervention -- Democratic peace, sanctions, humanitarian interventions, terrorism, and war -- The democratic peace and democracy promotion -- Sanctions -- Humanitarian intervention -- Terrorism -- War fighting against the Third World -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested readings.

Bibliography -- 10 'It is not about me…but it kind of is': Celebrity humanitarianism in late modernity -- Introduction -- Current developments in celebrity humanitarianism -- Celebrities in action: a brief history -- Pros and cons of celebrity humanitarianism -- Illustrations and narratives of celebrity engagement: human trafficking and famine -- (a) Human trafficking -- (b) Famine -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- Index.

Drawing together prominent scholars in critical international relations, this work shows why and how race, gender and culture matter and will be essential reading for all students of global politics and international relations theory.

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