Siba N Grovogui
Biographic Data
| ID | 353862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siba N Grovogui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siba N |
| FAMILY NAME | Grovogui |
| SIGNATURE | GROVOGUI S N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Myth of Westphalian Common Sense: Abjuration and Republicanism in Quilombos's Palmares
The essay addresses a concern that significant dimensions of the consciousness and language associated with modern revolutions have gone missing from discussions related to agency. It centers on Quilombos, who in the early seventeenth century created Palmares as a unique constitutional experiment and yet have been excluded from disciplinary common sense in political and international theories on the matters of modern consciousness, constitutional…
Intervention militaire et constitutionnalisme
Practices and Metaphysics of Knowledge
As both a response and a complement to Partha Chatterjee's observations on modern Indian history, this essay speaks to the heterogeneity of cosmopolitanism and its trajectories. It focuses specifically on political and cultural experiments in West and North Africa that over time generated norms of citizenship, subjectivity, and jurisdiction that Grovogui associates with cosmopolitanism. The essay proceeds from a historiography that is necessarily…
Time, technology, and the imperial eye
The author prefaces the exploration of a tension emergent in the field of black studies, not unrelated to the strife in Moten&s;s writing on the theoretical status of the concept of social death. Black optimism is not the negation of the negation that is afro-pessimism, just as black social life does not negate black social death by inhabiting it and vitalizing it. Afro-pessimism is not but nothing other than&s; black optimism. The blackness affi…
Time, technology, and the imperial eye
This chapter considers the implications of the discipline&s;s dependence on European perceptions of time. The religious connotations of time, particularly its coincidence with the sovereign, never left secular European imperial ambitions. The tone was set at the so-called discovery of the Americas, which ushered in faith in European superiority, followed by ascendancy, and non-European inferiority, followed by subordination. In theory, the violen…
Remembering democracy: Anticolonial Evocations and Invocations of a Disappearing Norm
This essay is a corrective to disciplinary narratives of the story of democracy. To counter this story, it proposes the vision and imaginaries of democracy enunciated in a particular strand of anticolonial and postcolonial thought in Africa. The essay aims to highlight the precepts, predicates, and norms underlying this anticolonial democratic project which was constructed against a postwar liberal democratic project perceived then to be predicat…
Uncivil Society
Looking Beyond Spring for the Season: An African Perspective on the World Order after the Arab Revolt
There is much misunderstanding today about the decision of African countries not to endorse the military intervention in Libya undertaken by France, Great Britain, and the United States in conjunction with a few Arab States. This act of non-cooperation is the result of a tension that is much deeper and, contrary to punditry, goes to the core of the future of global governance and international morality today. This tension arises from two clashing…
The African foreign policy of secretary of state Henry Kissinger
No Bridges to Swamps: A Postcolonial Perspective on Disciplinary Dialogue
Roundtable: The Limits of Bridge-Building
This roundtable develops arguments presented at the 2008 International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention. The theme of the convention was `Bridging Multiple Divides' and its aim to enhance dialogue among the diverse research communities within international studies. The aim of the `Limits of Bridge-Building' panel at ISA, and the present roundtable, has been to probe the challenges presented by bridge-building and specifically the possi…
Counterpoints and the Imaginaries Behind Them
Journal Article Counterpoints and the Imaginaries Behind Them Get access Siba N. Grovogui Siba N. Grovogui Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 327–331, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00079_2.x Published: 07 September 2009
Oiling Tyranny? Neoliberalism and Global Governance in Chad 1
The “oil economy” and its structuring effects are the subjects of the article “Oiling Tyranny? Neoliberalism and Global Governance in Chad” by Siba N. Grovogui and Lori Leonard. The authors examine the agreement, between the state of Chad and the World Bank, to allow the building of a pipeline in Chad to be accompanied by a series of World Bank-orchestrated “good governance” initiatives. The article critically examines the Bank’s “trusteeship” in…
Leclerc’s Mosaic: Historicism, Institutionalism, and Memory
In 1995, the American Public Broadcasting System (PBS) produced a month-long televison series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. The PBS series was one of many events that sought to recapture the high moments of the "great war." According to PBS, these were inter alia the collapse of France; German invasion of Belgium; the march of Werhmacht toward the Low Countries; the Russian Front; the Stalin-CHitler Pact; the …
Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly: Descartes Wasn’t Always Right, Diderot Maybe
Rumor has it that Henry Morton Stanley perplexed over a quandary facing colonialists: "we cannot justify our presence among "natives" if we do not educate them; but I suspect that we are not prepared for what they will say about us when and if we do teach them to write."1 Stanley correctly predicted that "natives" would have different understandings of the colonial act and that what appeared to the colonizers as virtues and necessities may well a…
Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Order and Institutions
This book re-evaluates 'international knowledge' in light of recent scholarship in the fields of hermeneutics, ethnography, and historiography regarding the 'non-West', the past, and the present of in
The New Cosmopolitanisms: Subtexts, Pretexts and Context of Ethics
Regimes of Sovereignty: International Morality and the African Condition
Theorists of the `African state' and Africa's external relations frequently focus on the causes, consequences, and repercussions of its failures. They are justified in their appreciation of `failure' and in their concerns for African populations who bear the brunt of political dysfunction. Yet, their diagnoses are frequently erroneous in regard to the genesis of the African state and the modes of governance within which it has come to exist. One …
Come to Africa: A Hermeneutics of Race in International Theory
Siba N. Grovogui (*) [The Republican congressional class of 1994 should] come to Africa. . . . In Rwanda and Burundi, no one is asked to pay for Head Start, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, national service or student loan programs. Instead, they just have a brutal competition for scarce land, energy and water, in which Tutsi and Hutu take turns downsizing the other tribe in order to grab more resources for their own. Thomas Friedman, New York T…
Rituals of Power: Theory, Languages, and Vernaculars of International Relations
There have been many signs of exasperation at the seeming inability of US foreign-policy makers, following the end of the Cold War, to properly envision a New World Order. This dissatisfaction was expressed in the 1995 summer issue of Dcedalus entitled Quest for World Order (hereafter, Quest).1 Underscoring its significance, this issue followed two others dedicated equally to the post-Cold War conditions of the world order.2 It also commemorated …
Africa South of the Sahara. 1996
The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Ecowas
Africa, Human Rights, and the Global System: The Political Economy of Human Rights in a Changing World
Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction--Human Rights and the Global System by Eileen McCarthy-Arnolds, Dave R. Penna, and Debra Joy Cruz Sobrepena Human Rights Philosophy and Action Human Rights and the Liberation Struggle: The Importance of Creative Tension by George M. Houser Fanon's Humanism and the Second Independence in Africa by Nigel Gibson International Response Global Poverty and Subsistence Rights: Some Consequences for Rich an…
The Failure of the Centralized State: Institutions and Self-Governance in Africa
Ripe for Resolution: Conflict and Intervention in Africa
Come to Africa: A Hermeneutics of Race in International Theory
Siba N. Grovogui (*) [The Republican congressional class of 1994 should] come to Africa. . . . In Rwanda and Burundi, no one is asked to pay for Head Start, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, national service or student loan programs. Instead, they just have a brutal competition for scarce land, energy and water, in which Tutsi and Hutu take turns downsizing the other tribe in order to grab more resources for their own. Thomas Friedman, New York T…
Regimes of Sovereignty: International Morality and the African Condition
Theorists of the `African state' and Africa's external relations frequently focus on the causes, consequences, and repercussions of its failures. They are justified in their appreciation of `failure' and in their concerns for African populations who bear the brunt of political dysfunction. Yet, their diagnoses are frequently erroneous in regard to the genesis of the African state and the modes of governance within which it has come to exist. One …
Looking Beyond Spring for the Season: An African Perspective on the World Order after the Arab Revolt
There is much misunderstanding today about the decision of African countries not to endorse the military intervention in Libya undertaken by France, Great Britain, and the United States in conjunction with a few Arab States. This act of non-cooperation is the result of a tension that is much deeper and, contrary to punditry, goes to the core of the future of global governance and international morality today. This tension arises from two clashing…
Oiling Tyranny? Neoliberalism and Global Governance in Chad 1
The “oil economy” and its structuring effects are the subjects of the article “Oiling Tyranny? Neoliberalism and Global Governance in Chad” by Siba N. Grovogui and Lori Leonard. The authors examine the agreement, between the state of Chad and the World Bank, to allow the building of a pipeline in Chad to be accompanied by a series of World Bank-orchestrated “good governance” initiatives. The article critically examines the Bank’s “trusteeship” in…
The New Cosmopolitanisms: Subtexts, Pretexts and Context of Ethics
Rituals of Power: Theory, Languages, and Vernaculars of International Relations
There have been many signs of exasperation at the seeming inability of US foreign-policy makers, following the end of the Cold War, to properly envision a New World Order. This dissatisfaction was expressed in the 1995 summer issue of Dcedalus entitled Quest for World Order (hereafter, Quest).1 Underscoring its significance, this issue followed two others dedicated equally to the post-Cold War conditions of the world order.2 It also commemorated …
Counterpoints and the Imaginaries Behind Them
Journal Article Counterpoints and the Imaginaries Behind Them Get access Siba N. Grovogui Siba N. Grovogui Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 327–331, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00079_2.x Published: 07 September 2009
Practices and Metaphysics of Knowledge
As both a response and a complement to Partha Chatterjee's observations on modern Indian history, this essay speaks to the heterogeneity of cosmopolitanism and its trajectories. It focuses specifically on political and cultural experiments in West and North Africa that over time generated norms of citizenship, subjectivity, and jurisdiction that Grovogui associates with cosmopolitanism. The essay proceeds from a historiography that is necessarily…
Remembering democracy: Anticolonial Evocations and Invocations of a Disappearing Norm
This essay is a corrective to disciplinary narratives of the story of democracy. To counter this story, it proposes the vision and imaginaries of democracy enunciated in a particular strand of anticolonial and postcolonial thought in Africa. The essay aims to highlight the precepts, predicates, and norms underlying this anticolonial democratic project which was constructed against a postwar liberal democratic project perceived then to be predicat…
No Bridges to Swamps: A Postcolonial Perspective on Disciplinary Dialogue
Ripe for Resolution: Conflict and Intervention in Africa
The Failure of the Centralized State: Institutions and Self-Governance in Africa
Africa, Human Rights, and the Global System: The Political Economy of Human Rights in a Changing World
Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction--Human Rights and the Global System by Eileen McCarthy-Arnolds, Dave R. Penna, and Debra Joy Cruz Sobrepena Human Rights Philosophy and Action Human Rights and the Liberation Struggle: The Importance of Creative Tension by George M. Houser Fanon's Humanism and the Second Independence in Africa by Nigel Gibson International Response Global Poverty and Subsistence Rights: Some Consequences for Rich an…
The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Ecowas
Rituals of Power: Theory, Languages, and Vernaculars of International Relations
There have been many signs of exasperation at the seeming inability of US foreign-policy makers, following the end of the Cold War, to properly envision a New World Order. This dissatisfaction was expressed in the 1995 summer issue of Dcedalus entitled Quest for World Order (hereafter, Quest).1 Underscoring its significance, this issue followed two others dedicated equally to the post-Cold War conditions of the world order.2 It also commemorated …
Africa South of the Sahara. 1996
Come to Africa: A Hermeneutics of Race in International Theory
Siba N. Grovogui (*) [The Republican congressional class of 1994 should] come to Africa. . . . In Rwanda and Burundi, no one is asked to pay for Head Start, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, national service or student loan programs. Instead, they just have a brutal competition for scarce land, energy and water, in which Tutsi and Hutu take turns downsizing the other tribe in order to grab more resources for their own. Thomas Friedman, New York T…
Regimes of Sovereignty: International Morality and the African Condition
Theorists of the `African state' and Africa's external relations frequently focus on the causes, consequences, and repercussions of its failures. They are justified in their appreciation of `failure' and in their concerns for African populations who bear the brunt of political dysfunction. Yet, their diagnoses are frequently erroneous in regard to the genesis of the African state and the modes of governance within which it has come to exist. One …
The New Cosmopolitanisms: Subtexts, Pretexts and Context of Ethics
Leclerc’s Mosaic: Historicism, Institutionalism, and Memory
In 1995, the American Public Broadcasting System (PBS) produced a month-long televison series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. The PBS series was one of many events that sought to recapture the high moments of the "great war." According to PBS, these were inter alia the collapse of France; German invasion of Belgium; the march of Werhmacht toward the Low Countries; the Russian Front; the Stalin-CHitler Pact; the …
Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly: Descartes Wasn’t Always Right, Diderot Maybe
Rumor has it that Henry Morton Stanley perplexed over a quandary facing colonialists: "we cannot justify our presence among "natives" if we do not educate them; but I suspect that we are not prepared for what they will say about us when and if we do teach them to write."1 Stanley correctly predicted that "natives" would have different understandings of the colonial act and that what appeared to the colonizers as virtues and necessities may well a…
Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Order and Institutions
This book re-evaluates 'international knowledge' in light of recent scholarship in the fields of hermeneutics, ethnography, and historiography regarding the 'non-West', the past, and the present of in
Oiling Tyranny? Neoliberalism and Global Governance in Chad 1
The “oil economy” and its structuring effects are the subjects of the article “Oiling Tyranny? Neoliberalism and Global Governance in Chad” by Siba N. Grovogui and Lori Leonard. The authors examine the agreement, between the state of Chad and the World Bank, to allow the building of a pipeline in Chad to be accompanied by a series of World Bank-orchestrated “good governance” initiatives. The article critically examines the Bank’s “trusteeship” in…
No Bridges to Swamps: A Postcolonial Perspective on Disciplinary Dialogue
Roundtable: The Limits of Bridge-Building
This roundtable develops arguments presented at the 2008 International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention. The theme of the convention was `Bridging Multiple Divides' and its aim to enhance dialogue among the diverse research communities within international studies. The aim of the `Limits of Bridge-Building' panel at ISA, and the present roundtable, has been to probe the challenges presented by bridge-building and specifically the possi…
Counterpoints and the Imaginaries Behind Them
Journal Article Counterpoints and the Imaginaries Behind Them Get access Siba N. Grovogui Siba N. Grovogui Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 327–331, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00079_2.x Published: 07 September 2009
The African foreign policy of secretary of state Henry Kissinger
Looking Beyond Spring for the Season: An African Perspective on the World Order after the Arab Revolt
There is much misunderstanding today about the decision of African countries not to endorse the military intervention in Libya undertaken by France, Great Britain, and the United States in conjunction with a few Arab States. This act of non-cooperation is the result of a tension that is much deeper and, contrary to punditry, goes to the core of the future of global governance and international morality today. This tension arises from two clashing…
Uncivil Society
Remembering democracy: Anticolonial Evocations and Invocations of a Disappearing Norm
This essay is a corrective to disciplinary narratives of the story of democracy. To counter this story, it proposes the vision and imaginaries of democracy enunciated in a particular strand of anticolonial and postcolonial thought in Africa. The essay aims to highlight the precepts, predicates, and norms underlying this anticolonial democratic project which was constructed against a postwar liberal democratic project perceived then to be predicat…
Time, technology, and the imperial eye
The author prefaces the exploration of a tension emergent in the field of black studies, not unrelated to the strife in Moten&s;s writing on the theoretical status of the concept of social death. Black optimism is not the negation of the negation that is afro-pessimism, just as black social life does not negate black social death by inhabiting it and vitalizing it. Afro-pessimism is not but nothing other than&s; black optimism. The blackness affi…
Time, technology, and the imperial eye
This chapter considers the implications of the discipline&s;s dependence on European perceptions of time. The religious connotations of time, particularly its coincidence with the sovereign, never left secular European imperial ambitions. The tone was set at the so-called discovery of the Americas, which ushered in faith in European superiority, followed by ascendancy, and non-European inferiority, followed by subordination. In theory, the violen…
Practices and Metaphysics of Knowledge
As both a response and a complement to Partha Chatterjee's observations on modern Indian history, this essay speaks to the heterogeneity of cosmopolitanism and its trajectories. It focuses specifically on political and cultural experiments in West and North Africa that over time generated norms of citizenship, subjectivity, and jurisdiction that Grovogui associates with cosmopolitanism. The essay proceeds from a historiography that is necessarily…
Intervention militaire et constitutionnalisme
The Myth of Westphalian Common Sense: Abjuration and Republicanism in Quilombos's Palmares
The essay addresses a concern that significant dimensions of the consciousness and language associated with modern revolutions have gone missing from discussions related to agency. It centers on Quilombos, who in the early seventeenth century created Palmares as a unique constitutional experiment and yet have been excluded from disciplinary common sense in political and international theories on the matters of modern consciousness, constitutional…
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