Interview – Priya Lal
Priya Lal discusses Black History Month, development and professional labour in Africa and Tanzania’s ujamaa socialist experiment.
Review – Race and the Undeserving Poor: From Abolition to Brexit
Shilliam tells the story of colonial and postcolonial Britain and the book’s power lies in its ability to not only narrate a history but also to portend its future.
Interview – Jenna Marshall
Jenna Marshall discusses her research on the politics of pedagogy in the Caribbean and how Pan-African social social movements help us rethink international development.
Non-Western International Relations Theorisation: Reflexive Stocktaking
Despite the currents of debate over “broadening” the theoretical horizons of IR beyond the West, several critical questions and issues still remain unclear or unexplored.
Colonial Politics of Digital Security Interfaces
When juxtaposing quantified data, digital territories, data visualization and security they end up reifying and perpetuating colonial practices and imaginaries.
Interview – Swati Parashar
Swati Parashar discusses the importance of International Women’s Day, barriers to feminist solidarity, #MeToo, postcolonial feminism and challenging patriarchal power.
Reflections on Confucian Cosmology and the Chinese School of IR
Confucian cosmology enables us to engage with panarchy while going beyond the rationalist or utilitarian paradigm in the knowledge tradition of science.
Review – The Politics of Compassion
This fascinating book is a major contribution to understanding the politics of humanitarianism and citizens’ agency in the current international neo-liberal global order.
Hegemony and Diversity in the ‘Liberal International Order’: Theory and Reality
Global power shifts, anti-globalization sentiments and the rise of populist leaders highlight a crisis in the ‘hegemony-diversity gap’ at the heart of the liberal order.
Interview – Amy Niang
Amy Niang considers how Africa features in the history of the international, the postcolonial state and sovereignty, and the conflict in the Central African Republic.
