Review – Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction
This book offers an audacious and detailed tour de force of the colonial and racial underpinnings of political science.
Interview – Sankaran Krishna
Sankaran Krishna discusses decolonising the university, post- and decolonial approaches to research, democracy in India, and cricket.
Interview – Samuel Ritholtz
Samuel Ritholtz discusses queer kinship and the rights of refugee families, the impact of Covid-19 on trans and queer people and the role of queer IR in efforts to decolonise the discipline.
The Appropriation of ‘Curiosity’
Progress comes by opposing the process by which non-Western peoples are viewed as passive, weak and disinterested, while enabling the retrieval of different ways of knowing and understanding the epistemologies of the South.
Interview – Gurminder K. Bhambra
Gurminder K. Bhambra discusses her interdisciplinary approach, colonialism and modern social theory, Britain as an empire, and decolonising education.
Interview – Frances Cruz
Frances Cruz talks about decolonial approaches to IR, as well as the limits of Western-centric framings of the Philippines and Southeast Asia more broadly.
A Decolonial Feminist Analysis of Narratives from Nicaragua and El Salvador
The infra-political and political resistances articulated by migrant women and caregiver grandmothers contribute to the reconfiguration of their identities.
Opinion — Who Is in Charge of Decolonizing Africa?
Africa cannot possibly thrive if it upholds an identity and standards that were precisely created to eliminate African culture and assimilate African peoples into foreign ideals.
Women for Profit – Seeking Asylum in the United States: A Neocolonial Story
Through neoliberal processes, women who seek asylum are subject to exploitation both in their countries of origin and once they reach their destinations.
Opinion – Decolonizing Development Will Take More than Moral Imperative
Making daily, unglamourous investments to build capacity, shift power, and give credit where credit is due may be the only way the mountain of colonization ever moves.
