Colonial Genealogies of National Self-Determination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21876397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Torsten Menge (0000-0002-4442-4257, Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 705-723 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2022.23 |
| OpenAlex | W4292316384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 37 |
Self-determination is a central concept for political philosophers. For example, many have appealed to this concept to defend a right of states to restrict immigration. Because it is deeply embedded in our political structures, the principle possesses a kind of default authority and does not usually call for an elaborate defense. In this paper, I will argue that genealogical studies by Adom Getachew, Radhika Mongia, Nandita Sharma, and others help to challenge this default authority. Their counter-histories show that the principle was used to justify, strengthen, and adapt imperial rule in the twentieth century. In particular, the idea that controlling a population's composition through regulating immigration is an essential aspect of self-determination emerged as a response to White anxieties about the migration of negatively racialized groups. Genealogies have not been adequately appreciated as a critical tool within the mainstream of political philosophy. I show that these genealogies have a critical role to play because they unsettle our uncritical attachment to the structures of the nation-state system and raise serious questions about the meaning and emancipatory force of the principle of self-determination
Colonialism · Epistemology · Immigration · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty
A Liberal Theory of International Justice
Historical Ontology
Territorial Sovereignty
The Citizen and the Alien
Decolonizing Anglo-American Political Philosophy
Immigration and Discrimination
If This Isn’t Racism, What Is? The Politics of the Philosophy of Immigration
The Value of Self-Determination
Strangers in Our Midst
The ontology and temporality of conscience
The state and its alternatives
The value of genealogies for political philosophy
How We Became Our Data
Immigration and Democracy
Indian Migration and Empire
Genealogies of Terrorism
Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance
Theorizing the Normative Significance of Critical Histories for International Law
The limits of collective self-determination
What has Become of the Emerging Right to Democratic Governance
Heidegger and Foucault
The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance
Self-Determination
(B)ordering Britain
Worldmaking after Empire
A Nation’s Right to Exclude and the Colonies
Norms of Self-Determination
The Ethics of Immigration
The Emergence of Sexuality
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |