... This chapter begins by discussing the respective failures of Senghor and Césaire to realize their federalist visions of nonnational decolonization. It discusses the contradiction for each between having a revolutionary vision of postnational democracy yet devoting their lives to political...

... postnational constellation legal pluralism plural democracy cosmopolitanism ...

... to organize postnational democracy or democracy on a global scale. The chapter offers a critical analysis of the territorialist assumptions underlying the interstate systems created by the League of Nations and United Nations systems. It also suggests that after the war France itself was a not quite sovereign...

... Several acclaimed recent films by young women directors take on women’s human rights issues while countering visual tropes of victimhood and challenging national cinema paradigms. These films are “postnational” in their financing and in their exploration of rights beyond those conferred...