Race and Imperialism in International Relations

On reckoning and repair in the international: revisiting imperialism and race in IR

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 5 April 2024, 1030 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

THe short-term contributions of the Special Issue have been worthwhile, but there remains a continued concern and challenge that with greater attention paid to race and imperialism in IR, these issues will become co-opted into the game of academic production, sanitised as intellectual curiosities, instead of being treated as matters of life and death that need to be opposed practically and not just on paper.

On the politics of decolonization theory and practice

by Heloise Weber | 5 April 2024, 1000 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

International institutional policy, shaped by a globally entrenched explanatory framework of development and underdevelopment, perpetuates the suppression of knowledge production aimed at challenging social, economic, and political injustices by elites across the global South

A reckoning with the traditional diplomatic community

by Patrick Quinton-Brown | 5 April 2024, 0930 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, States & Regions, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

Intra-elite, state-centric society is a strategic front, and ought to be defended and put to use in the continued development of a global and decolonial turn in IR.

Landmarks and warning signs

by Inderjeet Parmar | 4 April 2024, 1000 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

The special issue’s concerns could easily be a passing ‘fad’ as the forces of the status quo bide their time. A focal point on race, necessary as it is, could elide class and material factors’ influence on world politics.

International Relations and the Problem of Literacy

by Lina Benabdallah | 4 April 2024, 0930 EDT | Academia, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods

There is no shortage of knowledge produced in various traditions and diverse scholarly communities. There is no lack of theoretical traditions and political thought that come from non-Euro-American and mainstream canons. There is also no shortage in theoretical concepts and approaches to global politics that are not produced in Anglophone spaces. Rather, there is still in mainstream IR a major problem of literacy to access, integrate, and dialogue with this wealth of IR scholarship produced in and from the margins

Is Latin America “International” enough for IR?

by Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli | 4 April 2024, 0900 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, States & Regions, Theory & Methods

Even when Latin Americans are allowed to speak, IR scholars and practitioners do not listen to them due to the language in which they produce knowledge, epistemic violence and access barriers.

On the Global Entanglements of Race, Empire, and Knowledge

by Martin Bayly | 3 April 2024, 0940 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods

Decolonial methods, and the bringing of attention to race in knowledge production is necessarily historical. It demands a close re-reading of archives, forgotten texts, and sometimes “canonical” works. As a result, through this special issue and the wider work the authors build upon, we now have a very different understanding of the historical entanglements of race and international affairs knowledge.

Now what?

by Oumar Ba | 3 April 2024, 0935 EDT | International Affairs, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Symposia, Theory & Methods

Now that the myth of “theory-practice gap” has been largely refuted what role might IR and journals like International Affairs play in crafting a “reparative praxis”?

Introduction to the Symposium on “Race and Imperialism in International Relations”

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 3 April 2024, 0930 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods

The International Affairs Centenary Special Issue on “Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice” was published two years ago in the aftermath of the global Black Lives Matter movement; it marked an atypical period of introspection by many scholars, departments, and journals of International Relations on the general paucity of attention given to matters of race and imperialism in IR research and teaching.

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