TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2020/12/01/
N2  - In addressing the relationship between national and international worldmaking political projects, Adom Getachew's impressive and thought-provoking recent book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, seeks to move beyond recent debates between those who posit an inevitability thesis about the triumph of the nation-state after 1945, on the one hand, and those who insist on the possibilities of alternative pathways, on the other. The argument is compelling in demonstrating that the transcendence of race hierarchies was integral to arguments and aspirations about meaningful sovereignty. Getachew's central characters were visionaries in terms of imagining possible worlds beyond the nation-state. The book is less convincing in demonstrating that an intractable nationalism and indeed underlying racial thinking were not serious impediments to the achievement of these goals.
ID  - discovery10105060
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8747559
VL  - 40
SP  - 601
PB  - Duke University Press
A1  - Collins, M
JF  - Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
TI  - Imagining Worlds beyond the Nation-State
AV  - public
IS  - 3
EP  - 606
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
KW  - decolonization
KW  -  nation-state
KW  -  nationalism
KW  -  internationalism
KW  -  race
KW  -  race thinking
ER  -