Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Representation and Global Politics -- Global Authority and Hegemony -- Representational Practices -- Cases -- Outline of Chapters -- Part I. Colonialisms -- Introduction to Part I -- 2. To Be or Not to Be a Colonial Power -- Background -- Self-Affirmation: Constructing American Manhood -- The Western Bond -- Reading the Philippines -- Duality of Discourse: Equivalence, Deferral, and Instability -- 3. Getting the "Natives" to Work -- Background -- Disciplinary Technology and the Production of African Identity -- I Work Therefore I Am": The Dangers of Idleness -- Authorizing Authority: The Double Bind of Oppositional Discourse -- Conclusion -- Part II. Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies -- Introduction to Part II -- 4. Precocious Children, Adolescent Nations -- Background -- Global Purpose and World Governance -- Naturalizing International Identities: World Citizens, Precocious Children, and International Delinquents -- Classification and Subject Positioning -- Deferring Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- 5. Resistance in Colonial Kenya -- Background -- Reason in the Service of Empire -- Madness, Immaturity, and Modernization: Representing Mau Mau -- Disciplinary Technologies and the Deferral of Democracy -- Conclusion -- Part III. Contemporary Encounters -- Introduction to Part III -- 6. Foreign Aid, Democracy, and Human Rights -- Foreign Aid and Democracy: Constructing the "Other -- Foreign Aid and Human Rights: Constructing the "Self -- Conclusion -- 7. Repetition and Variation: Academic Discourses on North-South Relations -- The Sovereignty of Sovereignty: "Real" States, "Quasi" States, and the "Third World" in International Relations Theory -- Reinscriptions: Benevolent Imperialism -- Theorizing the Inequality of Nations -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Books, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers -- British Government Documents -- United States Government Documents -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

"Developed/underdeveloped," "first world/third world," "modern/traditional"-although there is nothing inevitable, natural, or arguably even useful about such divisions, they are widely accepted as legitimate ways to categorize regions and peoples of the world. In Imperial Encounters, Roxanne Lynn Doty looks at the way these kinds of labels influence North-South relations, reflecting a history of colonialism and shaping the way national identity is constructed today.

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