Overview
- 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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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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.
Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recentering Africa in International Relations
Book Subtitle: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure
Editors: Marta Iñiguez de Heredia, Zubairu Wai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67510-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67509-1Published: 08 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09803-2Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67510-7Published: 22 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 340
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, African Politics, Development Theory, Regionalism, Development and Post-Colonialism, Knowledge - Discourse