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Recentering Africa in International Relations

Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure

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Editors:
  1. Marta Iñiguez de Heredia

    1. Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Zubairu Wai

    1. Department of Political Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada

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  • 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

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Africa in/and International Relations: An Introduction

    • Zubairu Wai
    Pages 1-29

  3. International Relations and the Discourse of State Failure in Africa

    • Zubairu Wai
    Pages 31-58

  4. Re-engaging History and Global Politics in the Accounts of the Contemporary Conflict in the DRC

    • Marta Iñiguez de Heredia
    Pages 59-86

  5. Images of Africa in World Press Photo

    • Kate Manzo
    Pages 87-119

  6. Rehistoricizing the Sovereignty Principle: Stature, Decline, and Anxieties About a Foundational Norm

    • Amy Niang
    Pages 121-144

  7. Archiving Trauma and Amnesia: The Racialized Political Theologies of Reconciliation in South Africa

    • Zahir Kolia
    Pages 145-165

  8. Alternatives to Development in Africa

    • Sally Matthews
    Pages 167-186

  9. African Anti-colonialism in International Relations: Against the Time of Forgetting

    • Branwen Gruffydd Jones
    Pages 187-223

  10. A Decolonial World-Ecological Reading of the Global Land Grab: Gambella, the River, and the Fall of Karuturi

    • Bikrum Gill
    Pages 225-260

  11. Bringing African Scholarship Back In: Lessons from the Pan-African Political Project

    • Gemma K. Bird
    Pages 261-281

  12. Against Bringing Africa “Back-In”

    • Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
    Pages 283-305

  13. Conclusion: Reappraising Africa’s Place in International Relations

    • Marta Iñiguez de Heredia
    Pages 307-321

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 323-340
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About this book

This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics. Bringing together a number of scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to stage a critical intervention into the problematic ways Africa is accounted for in the dominant discourses of international relations and global politics, it challenges the structural and epistemic biases of IR that render the contributions of the continent invisible, and situates the continent as a global region that exists beyond notions of lack, disorder, and failure. Through these interventions, the volume contributes to a rethinking of IR, and the conditions of possibility for imagining a world otherwise beyond frames that fetishize Africa paradoxically as transparent and invisible. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

    Marta Iñiguez de Heredia

  • Department of Political Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada

    Zubairu Wai

About the editors

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.

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