Recentering Africa in International Relations Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Iñiguez de Heredia, Marta (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wai, Zubairu (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: International relations.; Africa-Politics and government.; Economic development.; Regionalism.; Sociology.; International Relations Theory.; African Politics.; Development Theory.; Development and Post-Colonialism.; Knowledge - Discourse.

This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics. Bringing together a number of scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to stage a critical intervention...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Africa in/and International Relations: An Introduction
• 2. International Relations and the Discourse of State Failure in Africa
• 3. Re-engaging History and Global Politics in the Accounts of the Contemporary Conflicts in the DRC
• 4. Images of Africa in World Press Photo
• 5. Rehistoricizing the Sovereignty Principle: Stature, Decline, and Anxieties about a Foundational Norm
• 6. Archiving Trauma and Amnesia: The Racialized Political Theologies of Reconciliation in South Africa
• 7. Alternatives to Development in Africa
• 8. African Anti-Colonialism in International Relations: Against the Time of Forgetting
• 9. A Decolonial World-Ecological Reading of the Global Land Grab: Gambella, the River and the Fall of Karuturi
• 10. Bringing African Scholarship Back In: Lessons from the Pan-African Political Project
• 11. Against Bringing Africa 'Back-In'
• 12. Conclusion: Reappraising Africa's Place in International Relations. .