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<br> This is a welcome book--one of the very few to provide an overview of anti-colonial struggles and post-colonial experiences from Latin America and Africa to India and Asia. The authors should be congratulated for eloquently demonstrating the relevance of these struggles and experiences for contemporary political theory. Decolonization for the authors is not simply an accomplished fact--because colonialism still persists in many guises and post-colonialism itself conjures up unresolved issues. The most prominent issue is how anti-colonial struggles can lead to a regime without unjust domination, that is, how democracy can be a form of genuine 'self-rule.' --Fred Dallmayr, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, and author of Beyond Orientalism and Dialogue among Civilizations<p><br> This book fills an important gap in the rich field of post-colonial studies. It allows us, for the first time, to see in a systematic way the deep and subtle thinking an

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<br> This is a welcome book--one of the very few to provide an overview of anti-colonial struggles and post-colonial experiences from Latin America and Africa to India and Asia. The authors should be congratulated for eloquently demonstrating the relevance of these struggles and experiences for contemporary political theory. Decolonization for the authors is not simply an accomplished fact--because colonialism still persists in many guises and post-colonialism itself conjures up unresolved issues. The most prominent issue is how anti-colonial struggles can lead to a regime without unjust domination, that is, how democracy can be a form of genuine 'self-rule.' --Fred Dallmayr, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, and author of Beyond Orientalism and Dialogue among Civilizations<p><br> This book fills an important gap in the rich field of post-colonial studies. It allows us, for the first time, to see in a systematic way the deep and subtle thinking and links among those who did the actual mental and physical work of decolonization--work performed without the theoretical hubris of assuming a blank slate. Kohn and McBride have made an important contribution in a crowded field. --Uday Singh Mehta, Professor in the Social Sciences, Amherst College, and author of Liberalism and Empire and The Anxiety of Freedom<p><br> Kohn and McBride's important volume is the beginning, rather than the end, of a conversation that points toward fascinating directions for future thinking. It should not only be compulsory reading for any political theorist interested in questions of power, domination, exploitation and privilege (or lack thereof), it should spur conversations about the decolonization of political theory itself, through new answers and new questions that emerge from the postcolonial world. --Theory & Event<br><p><br> The authors demonstrate the importance of postcolonial political thought in thinking about the timeless questions of politica

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Margaret Kohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Keally McBride is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco.

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