Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alterity and modernity (Las Casa, Vitoria and Suâarez: 1514-1617) / Enrique Dussel, trans. James Terry -- Ibn Khaldun and the origins of st ate politics / Lucian M. Ashworth -- Power and development: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke on empire / Graham Finlay -- From American democ racy to French Empire : race and the law in Tocqueville's liberalism / John Savage -- Postcolonial dialogics : between Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci / E. San Juan, Jr -- Problematic people and epistemic decoloni zation : toward the postcolonial in Africana political thought / Lewis Gordon -- The gift of double consciousness: some obstacles to grasping the contributions of the colonized / Jane Anna Gordon -- Symptomatic p olitics : the banning of Islamic head scarves in French public schools / Joan W. Scott -- Edouard Glissant's aesthetics of relation as divers ality and creolization / Hwa Yol Jung -- From postcolonial critique to postoccidental paradigm : indigenous peoples' mobilisation and the adva ncement of new scholarship / Alice Feldman -- Doing the postcolonial di fferently / Phillip Darby -- Postcolonial dialogues and public cyberspa ce: Pacific insights for cynical times / M. I. Franklin.