Exam 10: Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches

Postcolonial approaches involve retrieving indigenous epistemologies and cosmologies with which to think about relations among humans and, often, non-humans.

Decolonialism is more commonly associated with thinkers of Asian and African descent, while postcolonialism has been principally cultivated by Latin American thinkers.

Who argued that, as a system, colonialism represents a totalizing form of violence?

Which of the following is not a way in which the Sumac Kawsay/Buen Vivir movement differs from conventional understandings of capitalist development?

Which of the following is an example of a normative concern raised by postcolonial and decolonial approaches?

According to Robert Jackson, 'quasi-states', often created by processes of decolonization, have legal or 'juridicial' sovereignty that is recognized by other countries, but not 'empirical' sovereignty, understood as control over their internal affairs.

'Settler colonialism' involves which of the following?

In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon described the struggle against colonialism based on his experiences in India in the years immediately preceding partition.

Which of the following is not true of the Haitian Revolution?

Postcolonial and decolonial international relations are similar to Marxist approaches because they all agree that capitalism is a major organizing structure in world politics and that its tendencies are exploitative and immiserating. However, they differ because postcolonial and decolonial approaches emphasize the roles of racialization and colonial expansion in determining the character and pattern of exploitation.

Neo-colonialism, as defined by Kwame Nkrumah, refers to…

In 1902, W.B. Du Bois argued that the 'global colour line' was the major problem of the twentieth century, but his work, though prominent at the time, was not retained as part of the canon of International Relations.

Which of the following statements does not describe the common patterns of imperial or colonial control exercised by European powers?

Which author's examination of the political thought and practices of enslaved Africans around the world reveals alternative forms of sovereignty, rights, solidarity, and justice, which are attentive to histories of colonial violence and which serve as a counterpoint to liberal narratives that see many of these ideas as fundamentally Western in their origins and orientations?

'Modernity/colonialty' is a term developed among Latin American thinkers, which argues that, contrary to the conventional view of modernity as progressive, equalizing, and democratic, the philosophical and political project of modernity is foundationally premised on coloniality.