Worldmaking after Empire with Adom Getachew
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The Self in Self Government Is Contextually Dependent
The diversity of the peoples in the philippines islands that excludes them from self determination. And so what he argues in this text is that we have to forego the idea of a universal right or principle of self government. For him, in the native administration structures, theire forms of consent that he believes in that aren't what we would maybe identify as meaningful democratic control over society.
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