Alexander Anievas (editor) - Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line

RACE AND RACISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Relations, as a discipline, does not grant race and racism explanatory agency in its conventional analyses, despite such issues being integral to the birth of the discipline. Race and Racism in International Relations seeks to remedy this oversight by acting as a catalyst for remembering, exposing and critically re-articulating the central importance of race and racism in international relations.

Departing from the theoretical and political legacy of W. E. B. Du Boiss concept of the colour line, the cutting-edge contributions in this text provide an accessible entry point for both international relations students and scholars into the literature and debates on race and racism by borrowing insights from disciplines such as history, anthropology and sociology where race and race theory figure more prominently; yet they also suggest that the field of International Relations is itself an intellectual and strategic field through which to further confront the global colour line.

Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this much-needed text will be essential reading for students and scholars in a range of areas including postcolonial studies, race/racism in world politics and international relations theory.

Alexander Anievas is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

Nivi Manchanda is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Robbie Shilliam is Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London.

Interventions

Edited by:
Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick VaughanWilliams, University of Warwick

As Michel Foucault has famously stated, knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. In this spirit the EdkinsVaughanWilliams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IRs traditional geopolitical imaginary.

Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Mnoa, USA

The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical poststructural and postcolonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics.

Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics.

Critical Theorists and International Relations

Edited by Jenny Edkins and Nick VaughanWilliams

Ethics as Foreign Policy

Britain, the EU and the other

Dan Bulley

Universality, Ethics and International Relations

A grammatical reading

Vronique PinFat

The Time of the City

Politics, philosophy, and genre

Michael J. Shapiro

Governing Sustainable Development

Partnership, protest and power at the world summit

Carl Death

Insuring Security

Biopolitics, security and risk

Luis LoboGuerrero

Foucault and International Relations

New critical engagements

Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Doug Stokes

International Relations and NonWestern Thought

Imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity

Edited by Robbie Shilliam

Autobiographical International Relations

I, IR

Edited by Naeem Inayatullah

War and Rape

Law, memory and justice

Nicola Henry

Madness in International Relations

Psychology, security and the global governance of mental health

Alison Howell

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

Geographies of the nomos

Edited by Stephen Legg

Politics of Urbanism

Seeing like a city

Warren Magnusson

Beyond Biopolitics

Theory, violence and horror in world politics

Franois Debrix and Alexander D. Barder

The Politics of Speed

Capitalism, the state and war in an accelerating world

Simon Glezos

Politics and the Art of Commemoration

Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

Katherine Hite

Indian Foreign Policy

The politics of postcolonial identity

Priya Chacko

Politics of the Event

Time, movement, becoming

Tom Lundborg

Theorising PostConflict Reconciliation

Agonism, restitution and repair

Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch

Europes Encounter with Islam

The secular and the postsecular

Luca Mavelli

ReThinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction

Badredine Arfi

The New Violent Cartography

Geoanalysis after the aesthetic turn

Edited by Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro

Insuring War

Sovereignty, security and risk

Luis LoboGuerrero

International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis

Necati Polat

The Postcolonial Subject

Claiming politics/governing others in late modernity

Vivienne Jabri

Foucault and the Politics of Hearing

Lauri Siisiinen

Volunteer Tourism in the Global South

Giving back in neoliberal times

Wanda Vrasti

Cosmopolitan Government in Europe

Citizens and entrepreneurs in postnational politics

Owen Parker

Studies in the TransDisciplinary Method

After the aesthetic turn

Michael J. Shapiro

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The scars of violence

Brent J. Steele

Celebrity Humanitarianism

The ideology of global charity

Ilan Kapoor

Deconstructing International Politics

Michael Dillon

The Politics of Exile

Elizabeth Dauphinee

Democratic Futures

Revisioning democracy promotion

Milja Kurki

Postcolonial Theory

A critical introduction

Edited by Sanjay Seth

More than Just War

Narratives of the just war and military life

Charles A. Jones

Deleuze & Fascism

Security: war: aesthetics

Edited by Brad Evans and Julian Reid

Feminist International Relations

Exquisite Corpse

Marysia Zalewski

The Persistence of Nationalism

From imagined communities to urban encounters

Angharad Closs Stephens

Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance

Reconstructing the greenhouse

Edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe and Benjamin Stephan

Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations

The Politics of Transgression in the Maghred

Alina Sajed

PostTsunami Reconstruction in Indonesia

Negotiating normativity through gender mainstreaming initiatives in Aceh

Marjaana Jauhola

Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq

Encountering the Abyss

Aggie Hirst

Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan

Meanings of partition

Ted Svensson

War, Identity and the Liberal State

Everyday experiences of the geopolitical in the armed forces

Victoria M. Basham

Writing Global Trade Governance

Discourse and the WTO

Michael Strange

Politics of Violence

Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the name

Charlotte HeathKelly

Ontology and World Politics

Void Universalism I

Sergei Prozorov

Theory of the Political Subject

Void Universalism II

Sergei Prozorov

Visual Politics and North Korea

Seeing is Believing

David Shim