Contents
Nikita Dhawan
Introduction ... 9
I. Entangled Legacies Nikita Dhawan
Affirmative Sabotage of the Master’s Tools: The Paradox of
Postcolonial Enlightenment ... 19 Karin Hostettler
Under (Post)colonial Eyes: Kant, Foucault, and Critique ... 79 Jamila M. H. Mascat
Hegel and the Black Atlantic: Universalism, Humanism and Relation .... 93 María do Mar Castro Varela
Uncanny Entanglements: Holocaust, Colonialism, and
Enlightenment ... 115
II. Transnational Justice Ulrike Hamann
A Historical Claim for Justice: Re-configuring the Enlightenment for and from the Margins ... 139 Sourav Kargupta
Feminist Justice Beyond Law: Spivakian “Ab-Use” of Enlightenment Textuality in Imagining the Other ... 153 Jorma Heier
A Modest Proposal for Transnational Justice and Political
Responsibility ... 177 Anna Millan and Ali Can Y!ld!r!m
Decolonizing Theories of Global Justice ... 195
8 Contents III. Human Rights
Julia Suárez-Krabbe
The Other Side of the Story: Human Rights, Race, and Gender
from a Transatlantic Perspective ... 211 Judith Schacherreiter
Propertization as a Civilizing and Modernizing Mission:
Land and Human Rights in the Colonial and Postcolonial World ... 227 Chenchen Zhang
Between Postnationality and Postcoloniality: Human Rights and the Rights of Non-citizens in a “Cosmopolitan Europe” ... 243 Frederick Cowell
Defensive Relativism: Universalism, Sovereignty, and the
Postcolonial Predicament ... 261
IV. Democracy Lyn Ossome
Democracy’s Subjections: Human Rights in Contexts of Scarcity ... 279 Navneet Kumar
Statelessness and the Power of Performance: A Reading of Resistance in the Face of Agamben’s Sovereign Power ... 295 Aylin Zafer and Anna Millan
Provincializing Cosmopolitanism: Democratic Iterations and
Desubalternization ... 311 Notes on Contributors ... 327 Index ... 331
