Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations opens up the world of international relations to the world where people carry social hierarchy through their lives and where national hierarchies are built on these social divisions and then magnify them. It is impossible to imagine 'international relations' without race and gender, without imperialism and the urge for freedom. But, of course, that's how IR is often understood. This book shows why IR has, largely, been too myopic and why IR needs to expand its vision.
Vijay Prashad, Trinity College, USA
This is the first and much-needed textbook to emerge in IR that introduces the undergraduate student to postcolonialism. It has the added advantage of focusing in a sustained way on how Eurocentrism intersects with race and gender thereby bringing a wider critical perspective to the student. This is a deeply impressive book that should be a go-to resource for all lecturers and students who are interested in this rapidly-rising area within IR.
John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield, UK
By bringing together race, gender and postcolonial critique, this textbook radically expands the vantage points and critical considerations currently offered in introductions to International Relations. Teachers and students alike will find the material challenging, thought provoking, and above all, timely and relevant.
Robbie Shilliam, Queen Mary University of London, UK
This important textbook brings together contributions from outstanding scholars to advance our understandings of the cultural constitution of global politics through the intersections of race and gender. Drawing from postcolonial theory, indigenous theory, and feminist theory, the volume contributes in significant ways to enhancing our understandings of some of the key concepts and processes of International Relations the nation-state, sovereignty, security, global capitalism, colonialism, and violence.
Shampa Biswas, Whitman College, USA
Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
International Relations theory has broadened out considerably since the end of the Cold War. Topics and issues once deemed irrelevant to the discipline have been systematically drawn into the debate and great strides have been made in the areas of culture/identity, race, and gender in the discipline. However, despite these major developments over the last two decades, currently there are no comprehensive textbooks that deal with race, gender, and culture in IR from a postcolonial perspective. This textbook fills this important gap.
Persaud and Sajed have drawn together an outstanding lineup of scholars, with each chapter illustrating the ways these specific lenses (race, gender, culture) condition or alter our assumptions about world politics.
This book:
covers a wide range of topics including war, global inequality, postcolonialism, nation/nationalism, indigeneity, sexuality, celebrity humanitarianism, and religion;
follows a clear structure, with each chapter situating the topic within IR, reviewing the main approaches and debates surrounding the topic and illustrating the subject matter through case studies;
features pedagogical tools and resources in every chapter boxes to highlight major points; illustrative narratives; and a list of suggested readings.
Drawing together prominent scholars in critical International Relations, this work shows why and how race, gender and culture matter and will be essential reading for all students of global politics and International Relations theory.
Randolph B. Persaud is Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC, USA.
Alina Sajed is Associate Professor of International Relations, McMaster University, Canada.
Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
Postcolonial Perspectives
Edited by Randolph B. Persaud and Alina Sajed
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Names: Persaud, Randolph B., 1959 editor. | Sajed, Alina., editor.
Title: Race, gender, and culture in international relations : postcolonial perspectives / edited by Randolph B. Persaud and Alina Sajed.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017049219 | ISBN 9780415786423 (hbk) | ISBN 9780415786430 (pbk) | ISBN 9781315227542 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: International relationsSocial aspects. | International relations and culture. | Postcolonialism.
Classification: LCC JZ1251 .R33 2018 | DDC 327.101dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049219
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Contents
RANDOLPH B. PERSAUD AND ALINA SAJED
SANKARAN KRISHNA
SRDJAN VUCETIC AND RANDOLPH B. PERSAUD
AYTAK AKBARI-DIBAVAR
NIVI MANCHANDA AND LEAH DE HAAN
MOMIN RAHMAN
NAEEM INAYATULLAH AND DAVID L. BLANEY
HAYDEN KING
RANDOLPH B. PERSAUD
AIDA A. HOZI C, SAMANTHA MAJIC, AND IBRAHIM YAHAYA IBRAHIM
Editors
Randolph B. Persaud is Associate Professor of International Relations at American University, Washington, DC. He specializes in the areas of race and international relations, hegemony and counterhegemony, postcolonialism, human security, and immigration and identity. He is the author of Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy published by the State University of New York Press. His research has also been published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Globalizations, Latin American Politics and Society, Alternatives, Race and Class, Conn. Jour IntL Law, and Korea Review of International Studies. He co-edited, with R.B.J. Walker, Race in International Relations
