BISA 2025 Conference

An exploration of the race, colonialism and the binaries and hybridities of IR theory

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 09:00

1h 30m

Grand 1, Europa Hotel

Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Description

An exploration of the race, colonialism and the binaries and hybridities of IR theory

Subcontributions

• The “Non-Western” Conceptions of the International: Five Modes of Similarity and Difference
• The Problems with Studying Race and Critiquing Racism in International Relations
• The Limits of Global IR: Essentialist Categories, Domains of Marginalisation, and Hybrid Communities
• The “international” in/as movement: tracing colonial and racial hierarchies in the circulation of knowledges, ideas, and bodies
• Securing the ‘non-Western Self’ in the ‘Western-led’ international order: Russian, Iranian and Chinese political discourses.