Recentering Africa in International Relations
Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure
Editors: Iñiguez de Heredia, Marta, Wai, Zubairu (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Africa in/and International Relations: An Introduction
Pages 1-29
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International Relations and the Discourse of State Failure in Africa
Pages 31-58
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Re-engaging History and Global Politics in the Accounts of the Contemporary Conflict in the DRC
Pages 59-86
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Images of Africa in World Press Photo
Pages 87-119
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Rehistoricizing the Sovereignty Principle: Stature, Decline, and Anxieties About a Foundational Norm
Pages 121-144
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Recentering Africa in International Relations
- Book Subtitle
- Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure
- Editors
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- Marta Iñiguez de Heredia
- Zubairu Wai
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-67510-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-67510-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-67509-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-09803-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 340
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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