Nalini Persram teaches Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. She has taught at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of the West Indies, and her areas of intererest include subjectivity and survival, Caribbean forms of culture and resistance, and other sites of political theory.

• 1 Introduction: Pushing Politics Part 2 Part One: Imperialism and Political Thought Chapter 3 Alterity and Modernity (Las Casa, Vitoria and Suárez: 1514-1617) Chapter 4 Ibn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics Chapter 5 From American Democracy to French Empire: Race and the Law in Tocqueville's Liberalism Chapter 5 Power and Development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on Empire Part 7 Part Two: Critical Diagnostics and Newness Chapter 8 Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought Chapter 8 Postcolonial Dialogics: Between Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci Chapter 9 The Gift of Double Consciousness: Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized Chapter 10 Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French PUblic Schools Chapter 12 Edouard Glissant's Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization Chapter 13 From Post-Colonial to Post-Occidental Paradigm: Indigenous Peoples' Mobilization and the Advancement of New Scholarship Part 13 Part Three: Indigenous Movements of the Postcolonial Chapter 15 Doing the Postcolonial Differently Chapter 16 Postcolonial Dialogues and Public Cyberspace: Pacific Insights for Cynical Times

Nalini Persram teaches Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. She has taught at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of the West Indies, and her areas of intererest include subjectivity and survival, Caribbean forms of culture and resistance, and other sites of political theory.

• 1 Introduction: Pushing Politics Part 2 Part One: Imperialism and Political Thought Chapter 3 Alterity and Modernity (Las Casa, Vitoria and Suárez: 1514-1617) Chapter 4 Ibn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics Chapter 5 From American Democracy to French Empire: Race and the Law in Tocqueville's Liberalism Chapter 5 Power and Development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on Empire Part 7 Part Two: Critical Diagnostics and Newness Chapter 8 Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought Chapter 8 Postcolonial Dialogics: Between Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci Chapter 9 The Gift of Double Consciousness: Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized Chapter 10 Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French PUblic Schools Chapter 12 Edouard Glissant's Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization Chapter 13 From Post-Colonial to Post-Occidental Paradigm: Indigenous Peoples' Mobilization and the Advancement of New Scholarship Part 13 Part Three: Indigenous Movements of the Postcolonial Chapter 15 Doing the Postcolonial Differently Chapter 16 Postcolonial Dialogues and Public Cyberspace: Pacific Insights for Cynical Times

Nalini Persram teaches Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. She has taught at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of the West Indies, and her areas of intererest include subjectivity and survival, Caribbean forms of culture and resistance, and other sites of political theory.

• 1 Introduction: Pushing Politics Part 2 Part One: Imperialism and Political Thought Chapter 3 Alterity and Modernity (Las Casa, Vitoria and Suárez: 1514-1617) Chapter 4 Ibn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics Chapter 5 From American Democracy to French Empire: Race and the Law in Tocqueville's Liberalism Chapter 5 Power and Development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on Empire Part 7 Part Two: Critical Diagnostics and Newness Chapter 8 Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization: Toward the Postcolonial in Africana Political Thought Chapter 8 Postcolonial Dialogics: Between Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci Chapter 9 The Gift of Double Consciousness: Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized Chapter 10 Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French PUblic Schools Chapter 12 Edouard Glissant's Aesthetics of Relation as Diversality and Creolization Chapter 13 From Post-Colonial to Post-Occidental Paradigm: Indigenous Peoples' Mobilization and the Advancement of New Scholarship Part 13 Part Three: Indigenous Movements of the Postcolonial Chapter 15 Doing the Postcolonial Differently Chapter 16 Postcolonial Dialogues and Public Cyberspace: Pacific Insights for Cynical Times