Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure

ISBN-13: 9783030098032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 340 str.

Marta Iniguez de Heredia; Zubairu Wai

Spis treści

1. Africa in/and International Relations: An Introduction

Zubairu Wai

2. International Relations and the Discourse of State Failure in Africa

Zubairu Wai 

3. Re-engaging History and Global Politics in the Accounts of the Contemporary Conflicts in the DRC

Marta Iñiguez de Heredia

4. Images of Africa in World Press Photo

Kate Manzo

5. Rehistoricizing the Sovereignty Principle: Stature, Decline, and Anxieties about a Foundational Norm

Amy Niang

6. Archiving Trauma and Amnesia: The Racialized Political Theologies of Reconciliation in South Africa

Zahir Kolia 

7. Alternatives to Development in Africa

Sally Matthews

8. African Anti-Colonialism in International Relations: Against the Time of Forgetting

Branwen Gruffydd Jones

9. A Decolonial World-Ecological Reading of the Global Land Grab: Gambella, the River and the Fall of Karuturi

Bikrum Gill 

10. Bringing African Scholarship Back In:  Lessons from the Pan-African Political Project

Gemma K. Bird

11. Against Bringing Africa ‘Back-In’

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

12. Conclusion: Reappraising Africa’s Place in International Relations 

Marta Iñiguez de Heredia 

O autorze

Marta Iñiguez de Heredia is Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.

​Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, Canada.

Blurb

This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics. Bringing together a number of scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to stage a critical intervention into the problematic ways Africa is accounted for in the dominant discourses of international relations and global politics, it challenges the structural and epistemic biases of IR that render the contributions of the continent invisible, and situates the continent as a global region that exists beyond notions of lack, disorder, and failure. Through these interventions, the volume contributes to a rethinking of IR, and the conditions of possibility for imagining a world otherwise beyond frames that fetishize Africa paradoxically as transparent and invisible. 

Marta Iñiguez de Heredia is Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.

​Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, Canada.