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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.
List of contents
1. Africa in/and International Relations: An Introduction .- 2. International Relations and the Discourse of State Failure in Africa .- 3. Re-engaging History and Global Politics in the Accounts of the Contemporary Conflicts in the DRC .- 4. Images of Africa in World Press Photo .- 5. Rehistoricizing the Sovereignty Principle: Stature, Decline, and Anxieties about a Foundational Norm .- 6. Archiving Trauma and Amnesia: The Racialized Political Theologies of Reconciliation in South Africa .- 7. Alternatives to Development in Africa .- 8. African Anti-Colonialism in International Relations: Against the Time of Forgetting .- 9. A Decolonial World-Ecological Reading of the Global Land Grab: Gambella, the River and the Fall of Karuturi .- 10. Bringing African Scholarship Back In: Lessons from the Pan-African Political Project .- 11. Against Bringing Africa 'Back-In' .- 12. Conclusion: Reappraising Africa's Place in International Relations.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
