Sly civility and the paradox of equality/inequality in the nuclear order: a post-colonial critique

摘要

This paper presents a postcolonial critique of the problem of equality/inequality in the nuclear order. It tries to develop the concept of sly civility and illustrates through representative samples of writing how practices of sly civility have been historically embedded within the literature on arms control and disarmament. It questions these practices of sly civility circulating as colonial nonsense that is time and and again iterated to maintain the status-quo. The practices of sly civility induce a sense of humiliation and resistance among those discriminated in the nuclear order. These experiences of institutionalized humiliation cannot be addressed through techno-strategic practices of arms control and disarmament. This paper suggests the urgent need for decolonizing the nuclear order through negotiating hybridity in arms control and disarmament.