Event overview
Public Lecture by Phillip Darby, Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbounre
This paper explores why the work of the Indian political psychologist and public intellectual, Ashis Nandy, has not been taken up in International Relations. It goes on to discuss the contribution that his work could make to reimagining the domain of the international. From the remarkable range of Ashis’ ‘corpus’ I have selected three themes to illustrate my contention that his work could enrich the discipline. These are working with the everyday, pursuing connection with the other, and identifying with the victims – the losers in history, the casualties of global processes.
Phillip Darby is co-founder, with Michael Dutton, of the independent Institute of Postcolonial Studies based in Melbourne, and is its director. He is also a principal fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Select publications include: Fiction of Imperialism: Reading Between International Relations (1998); Postcolonizing the international: Working to change the way we are, University of Hawaii Press. 2006; “Recasting Western knowledges about (postcolonial) security” in James & Grenfeld (eds) Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence; Beyond savage globalization? (2009); “Rolling Back the Frontiers of Empire: Practicing the Postcolonial”, International Peacekeeping, 16, 2009.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 7 Dec 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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