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…