Overview
Placing the debate squarely within the discipline of international relations, Albert Paolini assesses the key personal and political dimensions of post-colonialism - one of the major political and cultural issues of the current era.. "Paolini is concerned with the connections among postcolonialism, globalization, and modernity, and he offers one of the first detailed statements of those connections to be undertaken in the field of IR. Focusing on the Third World, and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, he questions dominant notions of identity and subjectivity in the social sciences.Synopsis
Placing the debate squarely within the discipline of international relations, Albert Paolini assesses the key personal and political dimensions of post-colonialism - one of the major political and cultural issues of the current era.. "Paolini is concerned with the connections among postcolonialism, globalization, and modernity, and he offers one of the first detailed statements of those connections to be undertaken in the field of IR. Focusing on the Third World, and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, he questions dominant notions of identity and subjectivity in the social sciences.
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The intersection of intersubjectivity, modernity, and globalization are central to Paolini's analysis of postcolonialism and the status of the Third World in the contemporary free market economy. He questions dominant notions of identity and subjectivity in the social sciences in this post-modern reflection on international relations in the late 20th century by investigating the subjective and institutional changes of individual life and collective experience in an age of globalization. Until his death, Paolini was at La Trobe U., Australia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)