Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations

<p>Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology Women's Studies History and Postcolonial Studies it is interested in the following questions: how are modern constructions of gender and race forged in transnational - colonial as well as 'postcolonial' - processes? How did they emerge in and contribute to such processes during the colonial era? Specifically how did they shape colonialist constructions of space identity and international community? How has this relationship shifted with legal decolonization? </p>