Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations

Vrushali Patil is an Assistant Professor at Florida International University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Program of Women’s Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park and is the author of "Gender Oppression."

• Introduction 1. Kinship Politics and Space, Identity and International Community Prior to Legal Decolonization: The Problem and the Query 2. (Re)negotiating the Colonial Problematic: The UN Charter, the Emergence of Asia-Africa, and the Anti-Colonial Challenge to Kinship 3. The Limits of the Anti-Colonial Critique: Anti-Colonialists’ Visions and Divisions 4. Contending Perspectives?: The Overlap between Colonialist and Anti-Colonialist Narratives on Dependency and Sovereignty 5. Masculinity, Time and Brotherhood: Resolving the Colonial Problematic 6. Conclusion: Twentieth Century Transformations of Space, Identity and International Community. Appendix: Tables and Figures