Recentering Africa in International Relations

Challenges the dominant and hegemonic notion that Africa is peripheral, exceptionally outside world politics, and marginal
Offers a theoretically and empirically rich analysis by bringing together a number of scholars from various locations and disciplinary backgrounds
Constitutes an elegant epistemological critique of IR and how it relates to Africa, painting a complex picture of the dynamics of world politics, the larger structures within which it is produced, and Africa's place in it

Autorentext
Marta Iñiguez de Heredia is Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.

Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Africa in/and International Relations: An Introduction .- 2. International Relations and the Discourse of State Failure in Africa .- 3. Re-engaging History and Global Politics in the Accounts of the Contemporary Conflicts in the DRC .- 4. Images of Africa in World Press Photo .- 5. Rehistoricizing the Sovereignty Principle: Stature, Decline, and Anxieties about a Foundational Norm .- 6. Archiving Trauma and Amnesia: The Racialized Political Theologies of Reconciliation in South Africa .- 7. Alternatives to Development in Africa .- 8. African Anti-Colonialism in International Relations: Against the Time of Forgetting .- 9. A Decolonial World-Ecological Reading of the Global Land Grab: Gambella, the River and the Fall of Karuturi .- 10. Bringing African Scholarship Back In: Lessons from the Pan-African Political Project .- 11. Against Bringing Africa 'Back-In' .- 12. Conclusion: Reappraising Africa's Place in International Relations.