Unknown - Beyond the Masters Tools? (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions)

Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions

Series Editors:

Mustapha K. Pasha, Aberystwyth University
Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS University of London
Robbie Shilliam, Queen Mary University of London

This is the first series to mark out a dedicated space for advanced critical enquiry into colonial questions across international relations (IR). The ethos of this book series is reflected by the bricolage constituency of Kilombos settlements of African slaves, rebels and indigenous peoples in South America who became self-determining political communities that retrieved and renovated the social practices of its diverse constituencies while being confronted by colonial forces. The series embraces a multitude of methods and approaches, theoretical and empirical scholarship, alongside historical and contemporary concerns. Publishing innovative and top-quality peer-reviewed scholarship, Kilombo enquires into the shifting principles of colonial rule that inform global governance and investigates the contestation of these principles by diverse peoples across the globe. It critically reinterprets popular concepts, narratives and approaches in the field of IR by reference to the colonial question and, in doing so, the book series opens up new vistas from which to address the key political questions of our time.

Titles in the Series

Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions
Edited by Qunh N. Phm and Robbie Shilliam

Politics of the African Anticolonial Archive
Edited by Shiera S. el-Malik and Isaac A. Kamola

Asylum after Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking
Lucy Mayblin

Decolonizing Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique
Meera Sabaratnam

Global Development and Colonial Power: German Development Policy at Home and Abroad
Daniel Bendix

The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty
Amy Niang

South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations
Vineet Thakur and Peter Vale

Postcolonial Governmentalities: Rationalities, Violences and Contestations
Edited by Terri-Anne Teo and Elisa Wynne-Hughes

Beyond the Masters Tools? Decolonizing Knowledge Orders, Research Methods and Teaching
Edited by Daniel Bendix, Franziska Mller and Aram Ziai

Decolonizing Knowledge Orders, Research Methods and Teaching

Edited by Daniel Bendix, Franziska Mller and Aram Ziai

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De Diferentes Lugares, poem by by Leo Zavaleta, used by permission.

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Copyright Daniel Bendix, Franziska Mller and Aram Ziai, 2020

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Aram Ziai, Daniel Bendix and Franziska Mller

Gurminder K. Bhambra

Rosalva Ada Hernndez Castillo

Gurminder K. Bhambra, Julia Surez-Krabbe, Robbie Shilliam, Manuela Boatc, Olivia U. Rutazibwa, Peo Hansen and Mariam Popal

Johanna Leinius

Melanie Brazzell

Miriam friz Trzeciak

Mariam Popal, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Manuela Boatc, Julia Surez-Krabbe, Olivia U. Rutazibwa, Robbie Shilliam and Maria Eriksson Baaz

Andrew Davies and Kathy Burrell

Encarnacin Gutirrez Rodrguez, Kien Nghi Ha, Jan Hutta, Emily Ngubia Kess, Mike Laufenberg and Lars Schmitt

Andrea Cornwall

Wendy Harcourt

Chandra-Milena Danielzik, Franziska Mller and Daniel Bendix

Aram Ziai

Robbie Shilliam, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Peo Hansen, Julia Surez-Krabbe, Olivia U. Rutazibwa and Mariam Popal

Decolonizing academia has become a rallying cry on many campuses during the past couple of years. While this book is inspired by the current debates, the foundation for this project was laid at the conference Beyond the Masters Tools: Post- and Decolonial Approaches to Research Methodology and Methods in the Social Sciences, which took place at the University of Kassel in January 2016. Since then, debates and activism have meandered and resulted in many seeds planted in different places. Likewise, when we now express gratitude to those who have supported this project at various stages, our thank you goes out in many directions.

First of all, we would like to highlight the strong commitment of all those who realized this conference Joshua Kwesi Aikins, Josephine Brmer, Franziska Dbgen, Petra Klein, Eric Otieno Sumba, Benjamin Petersen, Sophia Pianowski, Ronja Schrder, Miriam friz Trzeciak and Elisabeth Tuider. Furthermore, the lecture performance Dismantling the Masters Archive by Laura Digoh, Jeannette Ehrmann and Darja Klingenberg and the spoken word performances by Philipp Khabo Koepsell and Moona Moon had a resonance that has been inspirational for us up until today, all the more as it shows how art may fundamentally change the ivory tower and its power structures. We are grateful to all the participants of the conference for the wonderful debates that we have tried to reflect with this book.

We have received fruitful and enriching feedback concerning different aspects of the project first and foremost from Robbie Shilliam, whose continuous and ever timely support was highly constructive for setting the stage, and placing this book at just the right location the Kilombo Series. We would also like to thank Mustapha Kamal Pasha and Meera Sabaratnam, the co-editors of the Kilombo Series, on whose support we could also rely. Furthermore, Dhara Snowden and Rebecca Anastasi from Rowman & Littlefield were incredibly supportive during the publication process and we would like to thank them for their professional and patient handling of this manuscript. We would also like to express our gratitude to two anonymous reviewers for their constructive and highly valuable comments.

Kolya Abramsky brilliantly translated Ada Hernndez Castillos contribution from Spanish into English and showed outstanding context sensitivity for the different textual formats of this particular chapter (although his numerous comments fell prey to necessary cuts). Also, Eric Otieno Sumba, who translated the round-table discussion on race, class and gender in German universities, was highly committed to making these complex debates accessible for a larger audience. Furthermore, we are grateful to Nomaswazi Mthombeni Jasmine Omeke and Ellie Gunesch for their ambitious work in preparing and copy-editing the manuscript.

We would like to express our thanks and appreciation to the German Research Foundation (DFG) for its generous support as funder of the conference (grant ZI 75911). Finally, heartfelt thanks go out to all the colleagues who contributed to this volume during many inspiring and passionate discussions, and many meaningful contributions at conferences and workshops.