Anticolonial Nationalism and Western Response

2018 ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Tony Smith
Keyword(s):  
Anticolonial Nationalism

Memory politics in contemporary Ukraine: Reflections from the postcolonial perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 699-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa ◽  
Yuliya Yurchuk
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism ◽  
Western Media

Reporting from the events of the so-called ‘Euro-revolution’ in Ukraine 2013–2014, the Western media were prompt to point out the excessive use of national symbols, including those connected with the memory of the Ukrainian nationalist organizations ‘OUN’ and ‘UPA’, which for some periods of time had cooperated with Nazi Germany and were involved in the killing of civilians. By using a postcolonial perspective, the article aims to explain this phenomenon, as well as a number of other elements of the politics of memory in contemporary Ukraine, such as the so-called ‘Decommunization Laws’ adopted in 2015. Special attention is paid to Frantz Fanon’s idea of ‘anticolonial nationalism’ and Homi Bhabha’s idea of hybridity and their realization in Ukraine.

A Political Theory of Decolonization

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-36
Author(s):  
Adom Getachew
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
International Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Integration ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism

This chapter sketches a political theory of decolonization that rethinks how anticolonial nationalism posed the problem of empire to expand our sense of its aims and trajectories. Drawing on recent histories of international law as well as the political thought of Black Atlantic worldmakers, it reconceives empire as processes of unequal international integration that took an increasingly racialized form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Confronted with a racialized international order, anticolonial nationalists turned to projects of worldmaking that would secure the conditions of international nondomination. It argues that attention to the specificity of political projects that emerged out of the legacy of imperialism provides a postcolonial approach to contemporary cosmopolitanism. A postcolonial cosmopolitanism entails a critical diagnosis of the persistence of empire and a normative orientation that retains the anti-imperial aspiration for a domination-free international order.

Distinction and Patriotism: Muṣṭafā Kāmil and the Making of an Arab Prince

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Mestyan
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism

This chapter examines the peak and end of Arab patriotism in Ottoman Egypt. The sudden death of Tevfik in 1892 helped to complete the restoration of khedivial legitimacy. However, patriotic intellectuals retained an uneasy relationship with khedivial authority. The symbolic figure of this relationship was Muṣṭafā Kāmil who was to become the first Egyptian nationalist politician. His entrance into politics defines the end of patriotism and opens a contested era of anticolonial nationalism. The early 1890s was also characterized by a theatrical boom in Arabic. Plays were translated and composed in Arabic, which challenged public norms and textual standards. There were more private stages, and the first theater building in Cairo was also built for performances exclusively in Arabic. Moreover, female writers appeared not only as playwrights but also as critics in journals.

Patriots and Traitors

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-129
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
World War ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Persecution ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism

This chapter argues that the rhetoric of “patriotism” and “treason” that dominated nationalist politics evolved in the public poetry surrounding two seminal events in modern Iraqi political history, the Bakr Sidqi coup d’état of October 1936 and the Rashid ʿAli movement of April 1941. The chapter documents the popularity of each movement and shows how partisan support for military intervention was shaped by the shared logic of anticolonial nationalism. It documents the social and political consequences that socialist and nationalist poets faced and examines how political persecution inspired the new socialist-nationalist alliance of the “national front” politics that would dominate opposition politics in the 1950s. The chapter also shows how the relaxation of state censorship of the Left during the World War II allowed leftist poets to articulate a new political vision that fused anticolonial nationalism and socialist internationalism.

Prince Phetsarath (1890–1959): Nationalism and Royalty in the Making of Modern Laos

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ivarsson ◽  
Christopher E. Goscha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Postcolonial States ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism

A biography of Prince Phetsarath highlights how a specific idea about Laos and its culture was formed under French colonial rule and nurtured under the Japanese occupation and its aftermath. During these periods, Phetsarath's understanding of Lao cultural nationalism was transformed into a political and anticolonial nationalism. While ultimately a study of failure, Phetsarath's activities show that anticolonial nationalism did not always have to be linked to Communist movements to be ‘revolutionary’, and suggests the importance of taking into account non-revolutionary and non-Communist actors – even members of royal blood – in order to better understand the complexity that went into the making of modern postcolonial states.

Self-Determination between World and Nation

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 613-621
Author(s):  
Adam Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global Institutions ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism

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. Instead, they internationalized the nation-state through the construction of new constituted powers that linked national sovereignties together in global juridical, political, and economic bodies. This essay explores a neglected question in this account: What were the constituent powers—the underlying sources of authority —that corresponded to these new global institutions? What, in other words, was the constituency of self-determination? Focusing on C. L. R. James and W. E. B. Du Bois, Dahl shows how anticolonial constituencies are at once the referent and effect of claims for self-determination. For James and Du Bois, politically delineating the constituency of self-determination is central to the institutional project of securing nondomination against international hierarchies of empire and enslavement.

The Reality of Dependence

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-118
Author(s):  
Anand Toprani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
False Sense ◽  
Energy Independence ◽  
The One ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism

This chapter and the one that follows demonstrate how and why Britain’s strategy of energy independence failed. The initial threat came from anticolonial nationalism, initially in Iran and then in Mexico. Britain weathered both crises but emerged with a false sense of security. The second and most challenging threat came from the fascist states, particularly Italy following the Abyssinian crisis of 1935–6. Although Italian hostility would jeopardize Britain’s plan to achieve energy independence by exploiting the Middle East, British officials paid little or no attention to the Italian threat to their energy lifelines when considering whether to support League of Nations sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia. Compounding the Italian problem was U.S. isolationism via the Neutrality Acts, which complicated British logistics by forcing Britain to import oil from the United States on British tankers and pay for it using scarce foreign exchange.

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