Author profile: Sheila Nair
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Postcolonialism and Women of Colour
Postcolonialism forces us to reckon with the everyday injustices and oppressions that can reveal themselves in the starkest terms through a particular moment of crisis.
Introducing Postcolonialism in International Relations Theory
Postcolonialism asks tough questions about how and why a hierarchical international order has emerged and challenges mainstream IR’s core assumptions about power and how it operates.
The Postcolonial/Public Intellectual
Seeking Europe’s affirmation of what counts as ‘philosophy’ or who counts as a ‘public intellectual’ matters less than pointing out that the standards used to measure who or what qualifies may never be met by postcolonial thought.
