This article explores the importance of what we call “decolonial deconstruction” for contemporary global politics and policy discourses and develops a critique of this approach. “Decolonial deconstruction” seeks to keep open policy processes, deconstructing liberal policy goals of peace, democracy, or justice as always “to come”. It emerged through a nexus of postmodern and decolonial framings, well represented in the critical Black studies tradition, where theorists have focused upon identity construction, rejecting static conceptions. These approaches have increasingly been taken up in international policymaking approaches and International relations theory, particularly in the field of peacebuilding and the broad policy approach of resilience. After highlighting the ways that processual understandings of deconstruction have transformed these policy areas, we suggest an alternative deconstructive approach. In doing so, we draw upon the critical Black studies tradition but emphasize the need to critique underlying ontological assumptions about the world. We heuristically set out this approach as the “Black Horizon.”

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正义 “即将到来” ？去殖民化解构，从后现代政策制定到黑色地平线


本文探讨了我们所谓的“去殖民解构”对当代全球政治和政策话语的重要性，并对这种方法进行了批评。“去殖民解构”寻求保持开放的政策进程，解构和平、民主或正义的自由主义政策目标，一如既往地“即将到来”。它通过后现代和非殖民主义框架的联系出现，在批判性黑人研究传统中得到了很好的体现，理论家专注于身份构建，拒绝静态概念。这些方法越来越多地被国际政策制定方法和国际关系理论所采用，特别是在建设和平和复原力的广泛政策方法领域。在强调了对解构的过程理解如何改变了这些政策领域之后，我们提出了一种替代的解构方法。在此过程中，我们借鉴了批判性黑人研究的传统，但强调需要批判关于世界的基本本体论假设。我们启发式地将这种方法称为“黑色地平线”。