Fall/Winter Timetable
POL2205H1S L0201
Topics in International Politics I
Postcolonial Debates in IR
Themes
What is postcolonial IR, and what does it mean for the discipline of IR? Why/how has postcolonial IR emerged and evolved? This course examines the foundations and evolution of postcolonial IR, to situate its legacies, changes, and continuities. We cover key themes in postcolonial IR such as otherness, difference, representation, knowledge/power, race and racism in IR. We also examine what it means to undertake decolonial and anticolonial knowledge production in IR. The course is divided in two parts. The first part teases out the core theoretical tenets of postcolonialism, and postcolonial IR. The second part covers how postcolonial IR can be empirically deployed. We examine the application of postcolonial critiques to key issues in IR, such as north-south cooperation, global environmental politics, global capitalism, war.
Texts
Primarily journal articles and book chapters
November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...