A review by sksrenninger
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew

3.0

I really liked learning about the specific ways postcolonial leaders set out to tackle the challenges of separating from imperial powers, but down two points for the dusty, repetitive, self-satisfied language. Either this is political theory for its own sake, in which case, what is the point??? (clearly I'm not a theorist), or it sets out to convince some people about how to do things better, in which case, come on lady, know your audience and use "ignore" the tenth time you're tempted to write "elide". Why write theory that practitioners can't read?