Opinion – Anti-Blackness: A Go-to Foreign Policy?
As long as predominantly Black countries themselves do not acknowledge and challenge anti-Blackness within their societies and in western quarters, nothing will change.
Higher Education and Race Relations in Brazil
Brazil faces an offensive on public universities caused by the cuts in investment on scientific research.
Interview – Adom Getachew
Adom Getachew discusses Black History Month, the racialization of international society, Du Bois, anti-imperial resistance and how to uncover non-Western knowledge.
Interview – Priya Lal
Priya Lal discusses Black History Month, development and professional labour in Africa and Tanzania’s ujamaa socialist experiment.
Interview – Amal Abu-Bakare
Amal Abu-Bakare discusses Black History Month, equality and racism in IR and her PhD research on counterterrorism as a racialised discourse.
Black History Month Interviews
To celebrate Black History Month we asked former interviewees whether they think the discipline of IR has made important strides to equally incorporate people of colour.
Interview – Yolande Bouka
Yolande Bouka discusses the importance of Black History Month, anti-black racism and how to decolonise IR, female agency in warfare and transitional justice in Rwanda.
Interview – Olivia Rutazibwa
Olivia Rutazibwa discusses the importance of Black History Month, silencing in IR, epistemic violence, decolonial approaches to humanitarianism and ethical retreat.
Interview – Toni Haastrup
Toni Haastrup discusses the importance of Black History Month, challenges faced by the African Union, the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, EU-AU relations and Brexit.
Interview – Chantelle Lewis
Chantelle Lewis discusses the importance of Black History Month, the effects of Brexit on people of colour, her PhD and the representation of Black students in academia.
