Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts : Beyond the Nation State: Transna...

by Mackert, Jürgen (EDT); Turner, Bryan S. (EDT); Wolf, Hannah (EDT)

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Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts : Beyond the Nation State: Transnational Regimes of Citizenship, Hardcover by Mackert, Jürgen (EDT); Turner, Bryan S. (EDT); Wolf, Hannah (EDT), ISBN 0367745380, ISBN-13 9780367745387, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance. While this may have held some truth for citizens in Western liberal-capitalist societies, such liberal ideals have never been realized in colonial, postcolonial and settler colonial contexts. Liberal democracies are not simply forms of rule in domestic national contexts but also geo-political actors. As such, they have been the drivers of processes of global oppression, colonizing and occupying countries and people, appropriating indigenous land, annihilating people with eliminatory politics right up to genocides. There can be no doubt that the West – with its civilizational Judeo-Christian idea and divine mission 'to subdue the world’ – has destroyed other civilizations, countries, trading systems, and traditional ways of life and is responsible for the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in the course of colonizing the world from its Empires of trade through colonialism to settler colonialism and today’s politics of regime change. Th discusses the settler colonial regime th

• ISBN: 9780367745387
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