Colonialism

Queer IR and The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention

Patrick Vernon • Jun 19 2024 • Articles

Colonialism continues to operate through liberal rights-based language, often rendering it more informal and undetectable.

Decolonising Resilience: Rethinking ‘Local Knowledge’, Opacity and Coloniality

David Chandler • Jun 5 2024 • Articles

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

Sam Pryke • Dec 20 2023 • Features

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

Sarah Furman and Elise Stephenson • Aug 5 2023 • Articles

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?

Annapurna Menon • Jun 28 2023 • Articles

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’?

Alaric Searle • Feb 10 2023 • Articles

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

E-International Relations • Apr 2 2022 • Features

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

Robbie Shilliam • Mar 27 2022 • Online resources

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

Ayça Çubukçu • Jan 7 2022 • Features

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

Lydia Ayame Hiraide • Nov 12 2021 • Articles

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.

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