Postcolonialism in International Relations

Wilkens, Jan

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.101

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“…They then investigate how actors at the peripheries of global power interacted within this setting. 112 As regards the case of Turkey, such an approach delivers useful insights for expanding the historiography of the country's internationalization. It shows that while Turkey's internationalization may have been driven by tactical concerns, multilateral constellations, and power interests, as well as by its developmental objectives, there is another dimension.…”

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Intersecting Asymmetries: The Internationalization of Turkey in the 1920s and the Limits of the Postcolonial Approach

Liebisch-Gümüş

2019

Auc Studia Territorialia

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Previous studies of Turkey's relations with the League of Nations suggest that in the 1920s, the relationship was marked by Turkey's exclusion from the League and disputes over territories and sovereignty. Only at the end of the decade did Turkey begin to join the international community, culminating in its becoming a member of the League in 1932. This article proposes a fresh reading of Turkey's internationalization (i.e., its participation in international organizations) in the 1920s. Not only do we begin to see Turkish membership in a considerable number of smaller international organizations, but the government also developed ties with the League Secretariat and the International Labour Office, even though it formally remained a non-member of the League. These more subtle forms of cooperation, this article argues, were part of a balanced strategy of internationalization that reflected the (semi)colonial underpinnings of many international organizations and the Ottoman experience with them. This internationalization strategy was grounded in the Kemalists' ideological conceptualization of the global order as profoundly shaped by European hegemony. In so arguing, this article adopts a postcolonial perspective. However, it also points out the limits of such a perspective, stressing that power asymmetries on the international level were connected with internal asymmetries within Turkey itself.

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Intersecting Asymmetries: The Internationalization of Turkey in the 1920s and the Limits of the Postcolonial Approach

Liebisch-Gümüş

2019

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“…What the Western discourse accomplishes is marginalization of the cultural others, denial of justice and equality to them, and dispossession of their historical experiences. Two kinds of postcolonial accounts can be identified in such claims (Paolini 1999, 52;Wilkens 2017;Birdal and Squires 2010). The first one is the expression of struggle and anticolonial nationalism, interested in a progressive constitution of self-identity in direct opposition to the Western imperialist ideology.…”

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Foreign Military Occupations and Ethnicity

Compel¹

2019

The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity

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Military occupations are one form of dispute settlement. International security studies and military sciences investigate why military occupations occur and why they have been considered necessary. International law reviews the grounds for their justification and provides normative guidelines for military conduct in the field. What the two disciplines lack is an introspection into what tends to happen in occupations and why most military occupations tend to end in failure, dislocation, and social turmoil. By reviewing a number of exemplary cases of occupation, including Japan and Palestine, this chapter focuses on the need to search for the underlying causes, which destabilize occupations and contribute to their deterioration. It argues that we need to draw upon research in ethnic relations, nationalism, and postcolonial studies, which focus on identity construction, reveal the nature of the knowledge/power nexus, and offer strategies for getting over the occupational and postoccupational setting.

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“…There are three variants which is commonly referred to as "Holy Trinity" (Young, 1995) consists of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha. Each of these variants are post-structuralism, socio-economic, and subaltern (Wilkens, 2017), that emphasizes different definition and role but is still included in one post-colonialism study. Post-structuralism always questioning on facts and beliefs that succeed that strengthening the domination and strength of an actor in International Relations.…”

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“…2. Otherization/alteration/binary construction: differences that are intentionally created to prove the superiority of the object being compared (Wilkens, 2017). 3.…”

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Colorism “Ideology”: The Legacy of Colonial Mentality in The Jakarta’s Gen-Z Mixed-Race

Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

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Colonialism left a big impact on power relations at the social level. One of the most prominent is the ideology of "colorism" which sees a person's position and ranking based on racial features and skin color, thus created racial hierarchy. The problem is, this indication is still happening today, the lifetime of Generation Z (Gen-Z) who was born in the 21st century, when the world has become increasingly converged by globalization and easy access to information. The "ideology" of colorism still persists by placing the white race as a race that is considered superior and has higher privileges compared to the "indigenous" race. But we wanted to explore whether the same trend holds true for Gen-Z of white and "indigenous" descent. Through the Postcolonial approach, we conducted a survey of 152 respondents and semi-structured interviews of mixed race and "indigenous" people in Jakarta and found that the colorism tendency only applies to those who are fully "white", but not fully to mixed races. However, this mixed race still gets a lot of benefits from this racial condition, as well as often finds discrimination.

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Postcolonialism in International Relations

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Intersecting Asymmetries: The Internationalization of Turkey in the 1920s and the Limits of the Postcolonial Approach

Intersecting Asymmetries: The Internationalization of Turkey in the 1920s and the Limits of the Postcolonial Approach

Foreign Military Occupations and Ethnicity

Colorism “Ideology”: The Legacy of Colonial Mentality in The Jakarta’s Gen-Z Mixed-Race

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