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…
The corona pandemic blows the lid off the idea of Western superiority
Anticolonial Solidarity in times of Pest and Cholera [this op-ed was originally written in Dutch and published on March 23, 2020 by MO* Magazine here] Olivia U. Rutazibwa looks at the spread of the corona virus in Europe from a great distance as she is on a writing retreat at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced…
[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…
[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…
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’…
Het bruingemaakte vrouwenlijf: intiem kruispunt van geweld
(This essay was first published online on March 1st 2017 on MO*.be and written for the Spring print edition of MO* Magazine.) Er is een bijna obsessionele aandacht voor “de bevrijding van moslimvrouwen” in Europa, maar tegelijk lijkt men vaak niet geïnteresseerd in de vraag of al die aandacht islamitische en gekleurde vrouwen echt vooruithelpt….
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…
[MO* Essay] De erfenis van #BlackLivesMatter
(first published on August 10th 2015 on MO*.be) Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa bekijkt de erfenis van #BlackLivesMatter en wat we hieruit kunnen leren in België en de rest van Europa. ‘De idee dat niet-Europeanen niets bijdragen of hebben bijgedragen en nu simpelweg aanspoelen om te komen profiteren, openbaart zich als een gevaarlijke absurditeit die enkel haat, uitsluiting en…
// Olivia U. Rutazibwa 