In the post-colonial waiting room:How overseas countries and territories play games with the norm of sovereignty
This chapter investigates this puzzle of choosing non-sovereignty in a postcolonial setting. Historically, the question of freedom from imperial hegemony has been linked to how Western colonialism involved keeping the colonized in ‘the waiting room of history’ by insisting that they were not yet rea...
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ftalborgunivpubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/d334af75-4d47-407a-afbf-541d4b23193f 2024-06-23T07:53:19+00:00 In the post-colonial waiting room:How overseas countries and territories play games with the norm of sovereignty Adler-Nissen, Rebecca Gad, Ulrik Pram Epstein, Charlotte 2017 https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/d334af75-4d47-407a-afbf-541d4b23193f https://www.routledge.com/Against-International-Relations-Norms-Postcolonial-Perspectives/Epstein/p/book/9781138955981 eng eng Routledge https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/d334af75-4d47-407a-afbf-541d4b23193f urn:ISBN:9781138955981 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Adler-Nissen , R & Gad , U P 2017 , In the post-colonial waiting room : How overseas countries and territories play games with the norm of sovereignty . in C Epstein (ed.) , Against International Relations Norms : Postcolonial Perspectives . Routledge , Worlding Beyond the West , pp. 175-192 . Greenland Mayotte EU post-colonialism sovereignty games discourse norms International Relations Theory bookPart 2017 ftalborgunivpubl 2024-06-03T14:52:20Z This chapter investigates this puzzle of choosing non-sovereignty in a postcolonial setting. Historically, the question of freedom from imperial hegemony has been linked to how Western colonialism involved keeping the colonized in ‘the waiting room of history’ by insisting that they were not yet ready for sovereignty. It explores a number of European overseas countries and territories. More specifically, it focuses on French dependencies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and North Atlantic Greenland constitutionally connected to Denmark. The immediate aim of anti-colonial struggles was to make the colonizers leave so that the colonized people could decide for themselves. Many anti-imperial struggles settled for nation-states each acquiring a separate, formal sovereignty-based international status. More recent versions of postcolonialism, inspired by poststructuralism and critical constructivism, have aimed at accounting for ways of realizing agency, which escape, first, imperial submission, and second, norms of an international society based on sovereignty. Instead of representing a rejection of sovereignty, the EU overseas countries and territories that remain under their metropole’s formal authority rearticulate sovereignty. As this chapter demonstrates, a universalizing European discourse on a universal norm for how to organize community and authority as a sovereign state makes a range of postcolonial choices possible, which both constructivist and some postcolonial thinking fail to fully acknowledge. A number of overseas territories take alternative routes to agency; not by resisting the norm of sovereignty - but by creatively articulating it beyond its claim to represent an 'either/or' distinction. The chapter demonstrates that territories not formally decolonized may very well perform a postcolonial agency, which tampers with the sovereignty norm. Book Part Greenland North Atlantic Aalborg University's Research Portal Greenland Pacific Indian |
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This chapter investigates this puzzle of choosing non-sovereignty in a postcolonial setting. Historically, the question of freedom from imperial hegemony has been linked to how Western colonialism involved keeping the colonized in ‘the waiting room of history’ by insisting that they were not yet ready for sovereignty. It explores a number of European overseas countries and territories. More specifically, it focuses on French dependencies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and North Atlantic Greenland constitutionally connected to Denmark. The immediate aim of anti-colonial struggles was to make the colonizers leave so that the colonized people could decide for themselves. Many anti-imperial struggles settled for nation-states each acquiring a separate, formal sovereignty-based international status. More recent versions of postcolonialism, inspired by poststructuralism and critical constructivism, have aimed at accounting for ways of realizing agency, which escape, first, imperial submission, and second, norms of an international society based on sovereignty. Instead of representing a rejection of sovereignty, the EU overseas countries and territories that remain under their metropole’s formal authority rearticulate sovereignty. As this chapter demonstrates, a universalizing European discourse on a universal norm for how to organize community and authority as a sovereign state makes a range of postcolonial choices possible, which both constructivist and some postcolonial thinking fail to fully acknowledge. A number of overseas territories take alternative routes to agency; not by resisting the norm of sovereignty - but by creatively articulating it beyond its claim to represent an 'either/or' distinction. The chapter demonstrates that territories not formally decolonized may very well perform a postcolonial agency, which tampers with the sovereignty norm. |
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