Earlier this year I published an article titled: After Inclusion. Thinking with Julian Go’s ‘Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory’ It is part of a conversation on Julian Go’s BJS Annual Lecture titled “Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory.“ The abstract reads as follows: “This contribution engages Go’s generative invitation to think…
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IR Should Abandon the Notion of Aid, and Address Racism and Reparations.
3 July 2020 – Foreign Policy – I contributed to a collective analysis piece titled: Why is Mainstream IR blind to Racism? with the brilliant minds of BY GURMINDER K. BHAMBRA, YOLANDE BOUKA, RANDOLPH B. PERSAUD, VINEET THAKUR, DUNCAN BELL, KAREN SMITH, TONI HAASTRUP, SEIFUDEIN ADEM “Worldwide protests against police racism and brutality and the toppling…
[video] On the Ruins of Epistemicide
Decolonising Westernised Solidarity through Epistemic Blackness (JIAS Seminar) In Februari 2020 I embarked on a stimulating Writing Fellowship at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS) in Johannesburg, South Africa. On 18 March 2020 I got the chance to present my work in progress – a monograph for the special book series Kilombo, of Rowman…
[Article] Hidden in Plain Sight: : Coloniality, Capitalism and Race/ism as Far as the Eye Can See.
A while ago I was asked by Millennium Journal of International Studies to review a line up of amazing works: Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 175 pp). Gloria Wekker, White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 226 pp.). Robbie Shilliam and…
E-IR Black History Month Interviews
28 October 2019 — To celebrate Black History Month e-IR.info asked several scholars about race and IR: Do you think the discipline of IR has made important strides to equally incorporate the research, ideas and histories of People of Colour, both conceptually and institutionally? What could be done better? Below is the interview edited by…
[op-ed] What’s There to Mourn? Decolonial Reflections on (the End of) Liberal Humanitarianism
1 January 2019 – The first issue of the brand new open access Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is out! The focus is on Humanitarianism and the Liberal Order, with contributions from Juliano Fiori (ed), Mel Bunce, Stephen Hopgood, Mark Duffield, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, David Rieff and José Luis Fiori I was asked to contribute with and…
On Babies and Bathwater – full TEXT
On December 7th 2017 I gave a Sussex Development Lecture in which I offer a conversation between personal experiences, reflections and decolonial scholarship to reflect on the fundamental, practical, institutional and epistemological implications of recognising the coloniality in the international development project. When we seek to part with the coloniality but not with the desire…
Understanding epistemic diversity // decoloniality as research strategy
[text based on a talk at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, NL, originally published on July 4th 2018 on their blog] How do we make sure that our efforts to diversify knowledge production go beyond a window-dressing/Benetton operation? How can we move beyond merely adding some colour and other markers of ‘diversity’…
[Video] On Babies and Bathwater: Decolonising Development Studies
In this Sussex Development Lecture (7 December 2017), I offer a conversation between personal experiences, reflections and decolonial scholarship to reflect on the fundamental, practical, institutional and epistemological implications of recognising the coloniality in the international development project. When we seek to part with the coloniality but not with the desire and imperative of global…
Letter from my student. Why #DecolonisingEducation matters.
This is a letter I received from one of my graduating undergrad students in International Development Studies this July 21, 2017 at the University of Portsmouth. However deeply flattering (as well as resonating so much with my own journey) these words are to me personally, this ain’t no bragging exercise. I share my student’s words…
From the Everyday to IR: In Defence of the Strategic Use of the R-word
To cite this article: Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (2016) From the Everyday to IR: In Defence of the Strategic Use of the R-word, Postcolonial Studies, 19:2, 191-200, DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2016.1254016 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2016.1254016 Published online: 17 Jan 2017. Abstract Rather than scrutinising who is a racist or not in John Hobson’s seminal work on…
Migration and the Need to Decolonize (Hegemonic Thought)
(This short piece was written in the Summer of 2016 for the Global Dialogues publication of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg, Germany during my visiting Fellowship there. You find the full publication here.) Looking at the world from and in Europe today, the old continent seems to be grappling with…
// Olivia U. Rutazibwa 