Daniel Brinkerhoff Young

Political Philosophy, Spring 2023, 4.20 – Getachew, “Worldmaking After Empire,” Part 2

I. What did anti-colonial nationalists mean when they described empire as a form of slavery?
(79-84)

a. What does it mean to say that the domination and exploitation involved in
colonialism is racialized?

II. How did opponents of the anti-colonial project to enshrine national self-determination as a
right argue against the enshrining of that right? (88)
a. 1) the argument that individual human rights have priority over national self-
determination (94-95)

b. 2) the argument that national self-determination is a “principle” rather than a “right”

(76; 88)

III. Correspondingly, how did anti-colonial nationalists argue against these arguments from their
opponents?
a. 1) the argument that national self-determination is a necessary prerequisite for
securing individual human rights (87-89; 93-97)

b. 2) the argument that national self-determination is a right rather than a principle (81-
82; 90)