Queer IR and The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention
Colonialism continues to operate through liberal rights-based language, often rendering it more informal and undetectable.
Decolonising Resilience: Rethinking ‘Local Knowledge’, Opacity and Coloniality
Placing opacity at the centre may enable the problematisation of external projects of intervention, no matter how ‘enabling’ they set out to be.
Review – Eurowhiteness
Hans Kundnani tackles the racial and colonial histories of the European Union, but fails to engage with the idea (or lack thereof) of European nationalism.
Opinion – Breaking Boundaries to Reimagine Space is Crucial
Achieving a lasting change in the space sector requires tackling patriarchal and colonial biases so that a more diverse group of people can develop a truer sense of belonging.
How are Textbooks in India Reproducing the Coloniality of Knowledge?
In India, textbooks create a postcolonial citizen with limited control over their own history and the Hindu narrative is deemed acceptable, with alternatives being ‘othered’.
Can the Academy Still Debate ‘Colonialism’?
Disagreeing vehemently with another scholar’s opinions in the academy is one thing, death threats and calls for a scholar to be fired quite another.
Interview – Pierre Englebert
Pierre Englebert discusses African statehood, and how it interacts with the concept of secessionism, as well as the impact of colonialism on the political study of Africa.
Discovery, Conquest and Colonialism
The ‘conquest’ and ‘discovery’ associated with 1492 might contain deeper-determining norms and practices than those of ‘non-intervention’ and ‘sovereignty’ associated with 1648.
Review – Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction
This book offers an audacious and detailed tour de force of the colonial and racial underpinnings of political science.
Opinion – Black and Southern Feminisms Matter in the Global Climate Struggle
Black and Southern feminists challenge us to consider the climate and environmental crisis as a crisis tied up in global histories of race, gender, and class as embedded in European empire.
