Robbie Shilliam - Decolonizing Politics

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3 Title Page Decolonizing Politics An Introduction Robbie Shilliam polity

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5 Dedication

6 Acknowledgments

7 1 Introduction Aristotle’s World Organization of the Book

8 2 Political Theory Kant: Humanitas and the Anthropos Wynter: Man1 and Man2 Conclusion

9 3 Political Behavior The Science of Race Heredity Eugenics and Behaviorism in the United States Fanon’s anti-colonial psychiatry Conclusion

10 4 Comparative Politics Colonialism and the Paradox of Comparison Political Development and the Committee on Comparative Politics Under-Development and Dar es Salaam University Conclusion

11 5 International Relations Good Imperial Governance International Society A Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Conclusion

12 6 Conclusion

13 References

14 Index

15 End User License Agreement

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Robbie Shilliam

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Names: Shilliam, Robbie, 1969- author.

Title: Decolonizing politics : an introduction / Robbie Shilliam.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Series: Decolonizing the curriculum | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “An ideal student primer exploring why, and how, the study of politics should be decolonized”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020037765 (print) | LCCN 2020037766 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509539383 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509539390 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509539406 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Political science--Philosophy. | Political participation. | Comparative government. | International relations.

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For Kōkiri and Reremoana. And to all the children who must find ways over, under, around, and through wicked Babylon.

My thanks to Jacob Kripp, Stephanie Najjar, Nandini Dey, and Sheharyar Imran for their help. Thanks also to Inès Boxman, Sophie Wright, and Louise Knight at Polity for all their support. And thanks to two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments.

Let’s start with a figure who is conventionally known as the “father” of political science – Aristotle. You might think this strange for a book that seeks to decolonize the study of politics: isn’t Aristotle a very Eurocentric departure point? Not if you asked Aristotle. He categorized Europeans as barbarians. Paul Cartledge (1993, 5), an eminent historian of the classical world, describes the ancient Greeks as “desperately foreign” to our Western sensibilities. Or how about Derek Walcott, famous Saint Lucian poet and Nobel Prize winner, who compares the Aegean and Caribbean seas and finds much in common:

If we looked at them now, we would say that the Greeks had Puerto Rican tastes. Right? Because the stones were painted brightly. They were not these bleached stones. Time went by, and they sort of whitened and weathered, the classics began to be thought of as something bleached-out and rain-spotted, distant. (Brown and Johnson 1996, 183).

Perhaps Aristotle is not so much a strange departure point as an uncanny one. Investigating the place of aboriginal ideas of the sacred in mainstream Australian society, Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs (1995, 171) define the uncanny as “the combination of the familiar and the unfamiliar – the way the one seems always to inhabit the other.” Aristotle is familiar: we are used to conceiving of him as the progenitor of a European science of politics. Yet he is also unfamiliar: in fact, Aristotle was not European, so what does that make of the purportedly European tradition of studying politics?