GOVT 4373

Building Tomorrow: State Building and the Post-Colonial Moment

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

How did people across the global south image their future after colonialism? How did they seek to construct new and stable social orders? What obstacles existed to realizing their dreams? In this course, students will explore the challenges of state-building at the post-colonial moment in a global, comparative, and transnational context. Through readings exploring case studies from across the developing world, each week of the course focuses on a given theme, such as racial and religious communities, civil war and irredentism, transnationalism, class, the Cold War, and nationalism. In addition to learning about social construction in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and beyond, students will also learn about how decolonization was understood and managed in more traditional centres of power in Europe and the United States.

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