Critique of Political Decolonization

Using the Ghanaian experience as a rich case study, Forjwuor rethinks what colonialism and decolonization mean and offers new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual approaches to engaging the questions of colonialism, political independence, political decolonization, justice, and freedom.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgments


• 1: Introduction: Critical Framework


• 2: Decolonizing Self-Determination: When the Law Conspires Against its Objective


• 3: On Indirect Rule: Critique of Foundations


• 4: Mythologies of Political Decolonization: How to Critique the Myth that Forecloses Accounts of the Imperium


• 5: Critique of Liberal Democracy: When the Sacred is Violated


• 6: Critique of Colonial Neoliberalism: How Colonialism is Franchised


• 7: The Constituent Specter of Colonialism: When Death Loses Its Meaning


• 8: Conclusion: Epistemological Considerations


• Bibliography

About the author

Bernard Forjwuor is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is a scholar of black political thought, and his research focuses on the philosophical, critical, and theoretical claims advanced by global black political thinkers. His recent work challenges the ways the colonial and the racial are routinely affirmed as extinguished in the liberal democratic affirmation of sovereignty.

Summary

Using the Ghanaian experience as a rich case study, Forjwuor rethinks what colonialism and decolonization mean and offers new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual approaches to engaging the questions of colonialism, political independence, political decolonization, justice, and freedom.

Product details

• Authors: Forjwuor , Bernard Forjwuor, Bernard (Assistant Professor Forjwuor, Bernard (Assistant Professor of Africana Forjwuor, Dr Bernard (Assistant Professor Forjwuor
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2023
• EAN: 9780198871842
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887184-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ghana, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Constitution: government & the state, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Constitution: government and the state, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies