CANCELLED - BISA 2020 conference

Conceptual revisioning from the Global South

Jun 18, 2020, 10:00 AM

1h 30m

Sandhill Room

Panel Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Description

These papers offer alternative ways of seeing common practices in IR by drawing on perspectives from either 'the Global South' or 'the subaltern'. These papers uncover how actors in the Global South are revising and reimagining practices such as statehood, nationalism, humanitarianism, drone warfare and sovereignty.

Subcontributions

• Before the and of the world: violence, counter-sovereignty, and the politics of language and translation
• Speculative Writing with a Purpose: Re-Telling the Drone
• ‘The Dictator or the Emperor?’ Syrian Intellectuals’ Protest Dilemma and the Aborted 2013 Western intervention
• Post-colonial political organisation beyond nation and state: Somali pluralism and the historic emergence of non-hegemonic, transborder forms of governance and social relationality
• The Future of Statehood: Self-determination and the Rise of New Nations in International Politics