Combating Eurocentrism and Reinscribing Imperialist Cartography in African Scholarship
Clenched fists against postmodernism, poststructuralism and postcolonialism speaks more to the impossibility of remaking Africa than otherwise.
Marxism, Poststructuralism and Warfare
Marxists believe that war is a tool utilised by capitalists to ensure their power persists, whilst poststructuralists underline the ‘us’ and ‘them’ hypocrisy in warfare debates.
Poststructuralism
As poststructuralists seek to question universal truths and metanarratives, they actively choose not to take ideas as we know them for granted, nor to see certain paths of action as inevitable.
Iterability and Newsweek’s Paradigm of Nigeria as ‘Black China’
A storyline proclaiming social transformation on the scale of contemporary China projects a positive trajectory for Nigeria, yet this idea is worth a closer reading.
Review – Violence and Civilization
Linklater provides a historical contextualization of our imagination about the differences between various “civilizations” regarding norms and beliefs about war and harm.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Poststructuralism and Media Representations of Terrorists
The official discourse across an event, although powerful, never fully accounts for the reading of the entire situation.
Introducing Poststructuralism in International Relations Theory
The impact of poststructuralism within IR comes from its ability to not only identify and uncover power relations that dictate political events but also make space for alternative discourses.
Beginner’s Textbook – International Relations Theory
A lively, readable and relevant foundational introduction to IR theory that will help students to see not only what theories are, but why they matter.
Do Contemporary Practices of Schooling Reinforce Colonial Relations of Power?
Contemporary practices of schooling reflect ethnocentrism as universal truth, reinforcing power relations that resulted from colonial rule by maintaining binaries.
(In)Security: From Thick Signifier to Empty Signifier
The in(security) of the minors is at stake in a semantic and practical power struggle among different actors such as the US, the UN, NGOs, countries of origin and the minors themselves.
