Martin Bayly is an Assistant Professor in International Relations theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has taught International Relations since 2014. From 2016-2019 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. His work lies at the intersection of history and theory with a particular focus on the South Asia region. His first book, Taming the Imperial Imagination (CUP, 2016) won the 2018 Francesco Guicciardini prize awarded by the Historical International Relations section of the International Studies Association. His work has appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, the Review of International Studies, the International History Review, and a number of edited volumes, newspapers, and public fora. His current research concerns the global connections that produced South Asian international thought in the first half of the twentieth century
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.