Abstract
Coloniality of knowledge is a global phenomenon; yet each (post)colonial society experienced colonialism differently and developed their local knowledge structures in ways which harmonized trans-national coloniality with indigenous cultures. Hence any effort to decolonize International Relations within a (post)colonial space has to be a targeted agenda which must unveil the concrete practices and processes which contribute to the marginalization of local knowledges and the reproduction of colonial patterns of racial domination. This chapter uses ideas borrowed from Liberation Psychology to expose the coloniality embedded in Pakistani International Relations. It draws its inspiration from the idea of Conscientization in order to denaturalize Pakistani International Relations. The chapter first explores various themes of coloniality within Liberation Psychology before it moves on to provide a detailed understanding of how coloniality is sustained in International Relations through global knowledge production processes, and lastly it demystifies the processes through which coloniality is mitigated, negotiated, and standardized within Pakistani International Relations.
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Abbreviations
- HEC:
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Higher Education Commission
- IR:
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International Relations
- SCI:
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Scientific Citation Index
- SSCI:
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Social Science Citation Index
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Waheed, A.W. (2023). Decolonizing Pakistani International Relations. In: Sajjad, F.W. (eds) Peace as Liberation. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41965-2_10
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