An enlarged state concept transforms postcolonial-state theory away from instrumental models
Evidence
The use of such a concept of the state totally transforms, for example, much of the literature about the so-called “postcolonial state,” which has often assumed a simple, dominative, or instrumental model of state power. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 119
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Warns against applying a simple dominative model to postcolonial states, directly relevant to how colonial and postcolonial regimes in Muslim-majority contexts are analyzed.
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this critique of the ‘postcolonial state’ resonate with analyses of statecraft in Muslim-majority postcolonial nations?
Related
- Post-colonial state expansion deepened rather than reversed colonial language structures (similarity 0.80)
- The modern state is not a timeless arrangement but a distinctly European invention. (similarity 0.80)
- State-centered nationalism is no longer a viable anti-imperialist answer (similarity 0.79)
- Postcolonial theorists of elite origin mobilize colonial-era capital to compete within Western academia. (similarity 0.79)
- Postcolonial states inherit colonial divisions that block formation of civic unity (similarity 0.79)
- Postcolonial Orientalism preserved colonialist residues under altered forms of power. (similarity 0.78)
- Modern historical processes like industrialization and nation-state dominance stabilized collective identities (similarity 0.78)
- Colonialism advanced state formation by racially ordering the colonized exterior (similarity 0.78)
- Post-Ottoman states adopted the European nation-state model as their foundation (similarity 0.78)
- Postcolonial multiculturalism has no linear causal link to its colonial past (similarity 0.78)
- Coloniality is defined by where the ruling class sits, not by dependency (similarity 0.78)
- Theory’s ideological shifts track the real fortunes of decolonized states (similarity 0.78)