Zeynep Gülşah Çapan is a Lecturer in the chair group of International Relations at the University of Erfurt, where she is also a member of the interdisciplinary Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO). Her research focuses on critical theories of international relations, history and historiography, Eurocentrism of the field of IR, sociology of knowledge and postcolonial and decolonial thought. She is the author of  Re-Writing International Relations: History and Theory Beyond Eurocentrism in Turkey published by Rowman and Littlefeld in 2016, has published articles in Third World Quarterly, Contexto International and Review of International Studies. Her most recent publication is ‘Writing International Relations from the Other Side of the Abyssal Line’, Review of International Studies, 43(4): 602-611.

Siba N. Grovogui is Professor of International Relations and Political Thought, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. In 2018 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association. His research focuses on international relations theory, political theory and African thought, and is currently working on two book manuscripts Otherwise Human: Human and Humanitarian Rights Traditions and Future Anterior: A Genealogy of International Relations and Society.

Amy Niang teaches International Relations te the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Relations, the University of Sao Paulo. Her research interests are in the history of state formation, International Relations theory, Africa’s international relations and the geopolitics of the Sahel. Her work has been published in Alternatives; Politics; African Studies; African Economic History, Journal of Ritual Studies; Afrique contemporaine and in many edited collections. She is the author of The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Sovereignty and Other Modes (2018).

Giulianna Zambrano is a Professor-Researcher in International Relations and Literature at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. Her research focuses on the connections between aesthetics and politics; human rights writing, especially related to migration, race and gender; prison art and literature; political repression; and post-catastrophe narratives.  She is the author of Resignifying Social Justice in Chota’s Valley, published in Ecuador by Abya-Yala and FLACSO-Ecuador. And, currently, she is leading the project “Looking in the silence of things”, a performance-installation-documentary piece based on the memory of post-catastrophe objects left after 2016 earthquake in Ecuador. She has also published her work in Perífrasis and Iuris Dictio.