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Jenna Marshall

Jenna Marshall is a Lecturer in International Studies at King’s College London and former Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on the political economy of developing countries and the intellectual traditions of the Global South. She is co-editor with Jasmine K. Gani of the 100th Anniversary Special Issue for International Affairs (vol. 98), "Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice" and co-editor of the forthcoming Special Issue for European Journal of Development Research, "Race, Anti-Racism and Development."

Recent Posts

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

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

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 5 April, 2024 | , , , ,

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.

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

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

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 3 April, 2024 | , , , ,

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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