Abstracts. Declaration of positionality and the confession of privilege as a way of revealing unequal power dynamics in knowledge production has become an

With almost every part of the Muslim world having suffered from European colonisation, the roles and relations of Islamicate movements in anti-colonial history cannot be ignored. And yet, despite i...

In this paper, I examine how the British Empire in the Arab Gulf created colonial classifications between Gulf Arabs and South Asians. The British racialised the Gulf Arabs in a way which presented...

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This event explores how race and colonialism have impacted lives, policymaking, and understandings of countries in the Middle East and South Asia.

I am often asked questions that expect me to show my strength, or ‘resilience’: ‘How are you still managing...

Acharya reflects on the role of racism in the emergence of the American-led world order and how mainstream scholarship on International Relations has obscu

While the ‘Arab Spring’ was met with hope from local populations, western commentators reverted to Orientalist narratives about the inevitability of confli

This article charts racist ideas in early thought on international affairs. It specifically uncovers how debate between two theoretical camps—conservative/

Abu-Bakare demonstrates how race becomes meaningful to the knowledge that is produced about Islamophobia. The article argues that in policy debates on syst

This article questions why nuclear weapon-free zones emerge in some areas and not others. It introduces the concept of ‘obedient rebellion’ to explain the

This article asks how we can develop a decolonial approach to researching climate justice, one which recognizes the agency of diverse populations, particul

Abstracts. Declaration of positionality and the confession of privilege as a way of revealing unequal power dynamics in knowledge production has become an

This article looks at the question of ‘national’ borders in racial capitalism through Israel's high-tech border industry. It asks how this border has becom

This article argues that Disciplinary International Relations (DIR) does not only explain international affairs, but also socializes publics and profession

Sen reveals the colonial origins of the scholarly perception that it is appropriate for states to conduct war and violence, while insurgent groups should n

The article analyses the role of national identity in British foreign policy, through the debate between ‘Anglo-Saxons’ and ‘Europeans’. It highlights the

Using feminist and postcolonial analyses, the authors show how colonial interventions, patriarchy and global hierarchies of knowledge production have made

The authors show how Eurocentrism and methodological whiteness in security studies excludes African experiences as they manifest through hybrid security or

Memorializing the Holocaust has become a moral obligation and best practice, seen to instill values of democracy and human rights. Using a decolonial persp

When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to second-c...

This article shows how Japanese conceptualization of the ‘Nan'y?’ region (the South Seas) by leading intellectuals and policy-makers was influenced by west

Cambridge Core - Middle East History - Mapping Kurdistan

In the introduction to this special issue, guest-editors Gani and Marshall argue that we must uncover the legacy of race, colonialism and imperialism in In

Decolonial methods, and the bringing of attention to race in knowledge production is necessarily historical. It demands a close re-reading of archives, forgotten texts, and sometimes “canonical” wo…

Even when Latin Americans are allowed to speak, IR scholars and practitioners do not listen to them due to the language in which they produce knowledge, epistemic violence and access barriers.

The special issue’s concerns could easily be a passing ‘fad’ as the forces of the status quo bide their time. A focal point on race, necessary as it is, could elide class and material factors’ infl…