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The darker people, decolonisation and the making of ‘the international’ : a theoretical enquiry
Thesis (PhD (International Relations))--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/84257 The darker people, decolonisation and the making of ‘the international’ : a theoretical enquiry Zondi, Siphamandla thapelotselapedi@gmail.com Thakur, Vineet Tselapedi, Thapelo UCTD International Relations Coloniality The darker people Colonial modernity Embodied and ontology Thesis (PhD (International Relations))--University of Pretoria, 2021. This study concerns itself with the constitution of ‘the International’ and the resistance to it. It contends that international relations (IR) constituted ‘the international’ through coloniality. This is the fundamental problem of ‘the international’. However, resistance against coloniality has largely been premised on western epistemic grounds. For instance, coloniality manifests itself at different historical periods, captured herein as ‘regimes of being’. First was the colonial construction, second the liberal construction, and third is the neoliberal construction of ‘the International’, all of which are resisted based on western epistemic terms. To this extent, coloniality is both continuous and continued. Accordingly, given this cycle, the study contends that the problem of this resistance is that it leaves out the ontological features of coloniality, specifically anti-black racism or the ontological difference. This is what accounts for either the failure or the incorporation of resistance against coloniality. And this is the reason why coloniality has survived throughout different historical periods, albeit in weaker epistemic forms. In other words, coloniality, as a tool of domination, first operates through an ontological frame, and secondly through an epistemic frame. This is because these regimes were made possible through the ‘ontological difference’ created during the expansion of western Europe. The problem of decolonial thought is that it approaches the ontological via the epistemic. Accordingly, the study uses Africana existential thought to centre the ontological in the constitution of ‘the international’. This study uses ‘being’ as the basis of domination/ oppression. It uses the method of conceptual history to show how different regimes of beings were constituted in different historical periods. Therefore, the study blends decolonial theory with African existential thought as the guiding theoretical optic from which this study engages in this discussion. nGAP Political Sciences PhD (International Relations) Unrestricted 2022-02-28T08:47:43Z 2022-02-28T08:47:43Z 2022-04-07 2021 Thesis * S2022 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84257 en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD International Relations Coloniality The darker people Colonial modernity Embodied and ontology The darker people, decolonisation and the making of ‘the international’ : a theoretical enquiry |
| title | The darker people, decolonisation and the making of ‘the international’ : a theoretical enquiry |
| title_full | The darker people, decolonisation and the making of ‘the international’ : a theoretical enquiry |
| title_fullStr | The darker people, decolonisation and the making of ‘the international’ : a theoretical enquiry |
| title_full_unstemmed | The darker people, decolonisation and the making of ‘the international’ : a theoretical enquiry |
| title_short | The darker people, decolonisation and the making of ‘the international’ : a theoretical enquiry |
| title_sort | darker people decolonisation and the making of the international a theoretical enquiry |
| topic | UCTD International Relations Coloniality The darker people Colonial modernity Embodied and ontology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84257 |