The fetish of ‘the West’ in postcolonial theory

Lazarus, Neil

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511483158.003

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“…The project fulfils Chakrabarty's ‘provincialization’ of Eurocentrism (): it reduces NPE universality's epistemic scope within the pluriverse space of universality. One indeed cannot ‘displace or overturn Eurocentric reason by inversion’ – the point is to demonstrate that ‘there are no resources within the conceptual universe of modernity adequate to the task of unthinking Eurocentrism’ (Lazarus, , pp. 54, 61).…”

Section: Decolonial Resistance and Provincializing Npementioning

confidence: 99%

Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique

Staeger

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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The debate on NPE (Normative Power Europe) has flourished for more than a decade. NPE has shaped Africa-EU relations considerably, especially since the founding of the AU (African Union). Yet while the EU aspires to be a post-imperial, normative power, this postcolonial critique suggests NPE is a neo-Kantian, Eurocentric discourse that reinvigorates an outdated European moral paternalism. The article explores the role of NPE in Africa-EU relations through a Foucauldian conceptualization of knowledge in EU foreign policy, and insists particularly on how pan-African regionalization and NPE led to unwarranted optimism about deploying European norms in Africa. To the contrary, a decolonial perspective reveals that AU-EU inter-regional structural and organizational convergence enchains only frail normative convergence, which will diminish as the pan-African project unfolds further.

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Section: Decolonial Resistance and Provincializing Npementioning

confidence: 99%

Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique

Staeger

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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“…These relations are both context and, often, cause of events such as the missile crisis. Beyond critique of representational practices and their mystifying and ideological effects (Lazarus 2002), postcolonialism also attends to the political economies of value and force through which international hierarchies are produced and maintained. Subaltern knowledge provides a vantage point from which to critique both dominant and subordinated understandings (cf.…”

Section: Power Knowledge and International Hierarchymentioning

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Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis

Laffey

Weldes

2008

International Studies Quarterly

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Postcolonial scholars show how knowledge practices participate in the production and reproduction of international hierarchy. A common effect of such practices is to marginalize Third World and other subaltern points of view. For three decades, analysis of the Cuban missile crisis was dominated by a discursive framing produced in the ExComm, one in which Cuba was invisible. The effort to produce a critical oral history enabled Cuban voices-long excluded from interpretive debates about the events of October 1962-to challenge the myth of the crisis as a superpower affair. Despite the oral history project's postcolonial intervention, however, and greater attention to Cuba's role in the crisis, this framing persists and is reproduced in the micro-practices of scholarship. Decolonizing the crisis, and by extension the discipline itself, is not easy to do.

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“…2 More recently Lazarus (2002a) has pointed to the colonization of the field of postcolonial studies by a metropolitan elite whose theoretical reductivism and textual selectivity has allowed North American and Western European priorities (multiculturalism, transnationalism, globalization and the market) to determine a normalized pluralist modern aesthetic. This not only serves metropolitan needs, Lazarus argues, but results in a corresponding vilification of nationalism regardless of its context or political intent, and a refusal to engage any related discussion of material reality.…”

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The black Atlantic, American studies and the politics of the postcolonial

Sweeney

2006

Comparative American Studies An International Journal

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Twelve years of scholarship in the field of black-Atlanticmeets-American studies has resulted in a substantial body of knowledge around the extraterritorial excursions of US subjects and their cultural output. Despite the opportunities that the black Atlantic offered, it has begun to seem that the repositioning of academic perspective it stems from has itself become part of the discursive problems surrounding US American studies.

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The fetish of ‘the West’ in postcolonial theory

Cited by 58 publications

References 102 publications

Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique

Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique

Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis

The black Atlantic, American studies and the politics of the postcolonial

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