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.
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International Relations and the Problem of Literacy
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?
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
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?
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”
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.
Proxies, Pawns, and Spoilers: How Pro-Iranian Elements in Iraq use Christians and What that many Mean for Democracy
On February 21, the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq ruled on a set of cases pertaining to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) electoral law. The Court declared that the 11 parliamentary reserved seats for minorities were unconstitutional. So too was the KRG’s single electoral district model. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) officials and their opposition supporters hailed the move. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) rejected the...
Greg Kruczek
Gregory J. Kruczek is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Security and Risk Analysis Program at Penn State University (University Park). His teaching and research interests include Middle East politics and security, terrorism and crime, decision theory, technology and warfare, mobilization for armed combat.
Jasmine K. Gani
Jasmine K. Gani is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and Co-Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies. She writes and teaches on (post)colonialism, race, knowledge production, theory and history of IR, and ideologies and social movements in the Middle East. She co-edited the International Affairs centenary special issue on "Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice" (2022)...
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:...
Heloise Weber
Heloise Weber is in the School of Political and International Studies. Her research is broadly in the fields of critical global development studies/international studies, and postcolonial studies. Her research has been published in journals such as World Development, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and Globalizations. She is the co-author of Rethinking the...
Inderjeet Parmar
Professor Inderjeet Parmar read Sociology at the London School of Economics, and Political Sociology at the University of London. His doctorate, from the University of Manchester, was in the fields of political science and international relations. Prior to appointment at City, University of London in 2012, he taught at the University of Manchester (1991-2012), mainly in its Department of Government which, between 2006-09, he served as Head of...