...Elleni Centime Zeleke Abstract This essay is a critical introduction to the Kitabkhana on Adom Getachew's 2019 book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination . References Chatterjee Partha . Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse...

...Adam Dahl Abstract Rejecting the rigid dichotomy between anticolonial nationalism and postnational solidarity, Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire argues that anticolonial leaders in the Caribbean and Africa did not outright reject the nation-state in their quest for self-determination...

...-Determination in Normative Theory: Some Implications for Post- Apartheid South Africa Daryl Glaser Is there a right to self-determination and if so, however, be invoked under any and all conditions, when can it legitimately be invoked by “ethnic...

...Francis Cody Some concept of mass publicity is foundational for a number of theories of democratic self-determination, but the subject of publicity is radically dependent on technologies of representation for its own self-identity. Research on newspapers and the public sphere is valuable because...

..., they favored a gradual path toward formal self-rule and the recognition of national self-determination that worked within the international order, most clearly expressed through the removal of a minority rights article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. References Afro-Asian Networks Research...

...Michael Collins Abstract In addressing the relationship between national and international worldmaking political projects, Adom Getachew's impressive and thought-provoking recent book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination , seeks to move beyond recent debates between...

...Robbie Shilliam Abstract Shilliam approaches Adom Getachew's book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination as an intervention into political theory. The book provides three provocations to that field. Getachew helps recast the sources and materials by which political theory...

...Robert Vitalis Abstract In Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination , University of Chicago political theorist Adom Getachew has written a revisionist account of decolonization as “worldmaking” to inspire those who follow trailblazers like Kwame Nkrumah in pursuit of what...

...Arash Davari Abstract This essay extends themes in Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) by introducing Iran as a mediating element in Cold War worldmaking. It recovers the story of Pahlavi Iran's diplomatic efforts during the Sixth Special...

...Christopher J. Lee Abstract This roundtable intervention applies the concept of cruel optimism , as formulated by Lauren Berlant, to situations of decolonization with the purpose of understanding the myths and fantasies of political self-determination. It also examines the idea of a Jacobin spirit...

..., and self-determination. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 nationalism Ottoman Empire Turkey Turan Turanism The underlying rationale in addressing one brand of nationalism with pejorative adjectives is its direct relationship...

... suggested that a critical account of the ways in which fabricated symbolic devices produce a dramatic loss of one’s grasp on the given world was a necessary precondition for the inculcation of satyashodh (truth seeking), which named a deliberate practice of inquisitive self-making without determinate end...

... David Raja Mohan C. Raghavan Srinath , 596 – 608 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . ———. “Indian Internationalism and the Implementation of Self-Determination: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the United Nations Human Rights Commission.” In A Passionate Life: Writings...

... of the Simmering Village; a Historical Introduction to the Politics of the Petty Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka’. Paper presented at Symposium on Marxism and the Left Movement, Seminar for Asian Studies, Peradeniya 1985 . Lenin , V.I. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination , Progress Publishers, Moscow...

... Savarkar Prakashan , 1969 . ———. The Indian War of Independence of 1857 . London : n.p. , 1909 . Simpson Bradley R. “Self-Determination, Human Rights, and the End of Empire in the 1970s.” Humanity 4 , no. 2 ( 2013 ): 239 – 60 . Tagore Rabindranath . English Writings...

... Left Review , November 1976-January 1977, pp 5 –79. Balasuriya , T. [ 1978 ] Race Relations in Sri Lanka , Colombo: Lake House Press. Bopage , L. [ 1979 ] “The JVP and Self-Determination” , Lanka Guardian, May 1. Gramsci , A. [ 1971 ] Selections from the Prison Notebooks...

... India. Nationalism did perial power) survived as a practical fact in the not signify a rejection of the structure of center face of the self-­determining nation’s emergence as and periphery. It represented rather a new frame- the key touchstone of political...

...-that the relevance of caste as a by Brahmin and Brahminic individuals. Some of the basis for mobilization has emerged (or re-emerged). M-L individuals and groups did join radical move- This brings me to a consideration of the third ments of the regional self-determination and ethnic- stream of secular...

... the two postcolonial states turned the region into a zone of exception where Kashmiri political loyalties were deemed permanently suspect. Colonial-era laws, like the Public Safety Act (1978), 16 were passed to arrest Kashmiri dissidents and stem protests demanding the right to self-determination...

... in specifically ethnic terms, and the October Revolution only accelerated this process, since the Bolsheviks' acceptance of the principle of federalism (national self-determination on a territorial basis) induced non-Russians to articulate their interests in a national as opposed to regional, religious, or supra...