Anticolonialism and the Decolonization of Political Theory

Abstract This essay surveys some recent attempts to decolonize political theory and engage with non-Western thinkers traditions, especially anticolonialism. The authors' concern is that these engagements remain too centered on Western thought as the object of critique analysis. Through a reading Gandhi Fanon, authors argue anticolonialism, while engaged in West, also had positive or reconstructive theoretical agenda, one has been taken up creative ways postcolonial thought. Taking cues from work Sudipta Kaviraj, Partha Chatterjee, Mahmood Mamdani, proposes an alternative mode decolonizing takes its central aim generation study politics. It argues for historically attuned comparative approach politics aims innovate new concepts reanimate inherited ones. From this perspective, less recurring Eurocentrism than effort shift terrain theorizing thereby reinvigorate practice such.