Sarah C Dunstan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah C Dunstan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunstan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNSTAN S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4576-0156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Race in the Modern World: An Intellectual History
Few ideas have had a more powerful effect on the modern world than that of race, yet few ideas are less understood. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars, this volume traces the crystallisation of this concept in western intellectual discourse in the eighteenth century, its rapid rise to prominence as a governing concept across the world from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, and its legacy from…
‘The Intellectual Equipment of Mankind’: Unesco, Scientific Authority and the Problem of Race, 1950–1967
In 1950 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) published the first of two Statements on race, The Race Concept. The document was intended to bring the full weight of scientific authority to the condemnation of racism, and specifically, the kind of racism that had characterised the National Socialist regime in Hitler’s Germany during the Second World War. Whilst many were enthusiastic about the unequivocal co…
The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and a…
Cheikh Anta Diop’s Recovery of Egypt: African History as Anticolonial Practice
In his path-breaking 1954 monograph, Nations nègres et culture , the Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop denounced Western histories for providing false justification for European imperialism and perpetuating notions of the inferiority of Black peoples. Diop called instead for histories that revalorized the African past and demonstrated Black contributions to world history. By contextualizing Diop’s historiographical interventions in terms of h…
Recovering Women's International Thought: Past and Present Futures
Reply essay
Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon
Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’
Throughout the 20 th century, women were leading intellectuals on International Relations (IR). They thought, wrote, and taught on this subject in numerous political, professional, intimate, and intellectual contexts. They wrote some of the earliest and most powerful theoretical statements of what would later become core approaches to contemporary international theory. Yet, historical women, those working before the late 20 th century, are almost…
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought
Cause and evidence: On the erasure of women’s international thought and IR’s ‘failure as an intellectual project’
Claudia Jones, International Thinker
This article analyses the early international thought of Trinidad-born Marxist journalist Claudia Jones. We focus on a neglected aspect of Jones's intellectual production in the United States: her interrogation of geopolitics in her Weekly Review articles in the early 1940s. We situate Jones in relation to the contemporary popularization of geopolitical thought in this period, reading her alongside another neglected figure in histories of interna…
Women's International Thought in the Twentieth‐Century Anglo‐American Academy: Autobiographical Reflection, Oral History and Scholarly Habitus
Methodologies of textual and linguistic analysis have long held sway in Anglo‐American practices of intellectual history. Such approaches tend to decouple the ideas being traced from the human subject, or scholar, producing the thought. Taking the lead from the rich theorising work done in feminist, gender, race and cultural histories, this article asks what changes in our understanding of intellectual histories of international thought when we c…
Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War
Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from France and the United States, the French Caribbean and African colonies. She explores how black scholars and activists grappled with the connections between culture, race and citizenship and access to rights, mapping African American and Francophone black intellectua…
The Capital of Race Capitals: Toward a Connective Cartography of Black Internationalisms
A great deal of ink has been spilled reflecting upon the historically contingent nature of race as a category, and as a lived experience. Bringing together the case studies of the interwar sites of Harlem, Paris, and London and, in the post-World War Two period of decolonization, the cities of Algiers and Dakar, this article is a contribution to ongoing conversations about how we might develop a critical conceptual apparatus for understanding the…
OUP accepted manuscript
Une Nègre de drame”: Jane Vialle and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Reform, 1945–1953
The French-Congolese Senator, Jane Vialle, was appointed as a French delegate to the United Nations in 1949. During her term she served on the Ad-Hoc Anti-Slavery committee as an expert on African colonial conditions and the status of African Women. Vialle's work on the international stage was an extension of her efforts towards reforming the political, social and economic rights of women at national and local levels, within the French Fourth Rep…
Claudia Jones, International Thinker
This article analyses the early international thought of Trinidad-born Marxist journalist Claudia Jones. We focus on a neglected aspect of Jones's intellectual production in the United States: her interrogation of geopolitics in her Weekly Review articles in the early 1940s. We situate Jones in relation to the contemporary popularization of geopolitical thought in this period, reading her alongside another neglected figure in histories of interna…
Women's International Thought in the Twentieth‐Century Anglo‐American Academy: Autobiographical Reflection, Oral History and Scholarly Habitus
Methodologies of textual and linguistic analysis have long held sway in Anglo‐American practices of intellectual history. Such approaches tend to decouple the ideas being traced from the human subject, or scholar, producing the thought. Taking the lead from the rich theorising work done in feminist, gender, race and cultural histories, this article asks what changes in our understanding of intellectual histories of international thought when we c…
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought
The Capital of Race Capitals: Toward a Connective Cartography of Black Internationalisms
A great deal of ink has been spilled reflecting upon the historically contingent nature of race as a category, and as a lived experience. Bringing together the case studies of the interwar sites of Harlem, Paris, and London and, in the post-World War Two period of decolonization, the cities of Algiers and Dakar, this article is a contribution to ongoing conversations about how we might develop a critical conceptual apparatus for understanding the…
Une Nègre de drame”: Jane Vialle and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Reform, 1945–1953
The French-Congolese Senator, Jane Vialle, was appointed as a French delegate to the United Nations in 1949. During her term she served on the Ad-Hoc Anti-Slavery committee as an expert on African colonial conditions and the status of African Women. Vialle's work on the international stage was an extension of her efforts towards reforming the political, social and economic rights of women at national and local levels, within the French Fourth Rep…
Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War
Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from France and the United States, the French Caribbean and African colonies. She explores how black scholars and activists grappled with the connections between culture, race and citizenship and access to rights, mapping African American and Francophone black intellectua…
OUP accepted manuscript
OUP accepted manuscript
Une Nègre de drame”: Jane Vialle and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Reform, 1945–1953
The French-Congolese Senator, Jane Vialle, was appointed as a French delegate to the United Nations in 1949. During her term she served on the Ad-Hoc Anti-Slavery committee as an expert on African colonial conditions and the status of African Women. Vialle's work on the international stage was an extension of her efforts towards reforming the political, social and economic rights of women at national and local levels, within the French Fourth Rep…
Cause and evidence: On the erasure of women’s international thought and IR’s ‘failure as an intellectual project’
Claudia Jones, International Thinker
This article analyses the early international thought of Trinidad-born Marxist journalist Claudia Jones. We focus on a neglected aspect of Jones's intellectual production in the United States: her interrogation of geopolitics in her Weekly Review articles in the early 1940s. We situate Jones in relation to the contemporary popularization of geopolitical thought in this period, reading her alongside another neglected figure in histories of interna…
Women's International Thought in the Twentieth‐Century Anglo‐American Academy: Autobiographical Reflection, Oral History and Scholarly Habitus
Methodologies of textual and linguistic analysis have long held sway in Anglo‐American practices of intellectual history. Such approaches tend to decouple the ideas being traced from the human subject, or scholar, producing the thought. Taking the lead from the rich theorising work done in feminist, gender, race and cultural histories, this article asks what changes in our understanding of intellectual histories of international thought when we c…
Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War
Sarah C. Dunstan constructs a narrative of black struggles for rights and citizenship that spans most of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of people and movements from France and the United States, the French Caribbean and African colonies. She explores how black scholars and activists grappled with the connections between culture, race and citizenship and access to rights, mapping African American and Francophone black intellectua…
The Capital of Race Capitals: Toward a Connective Cartography of Black Internationalisms
A great deal of ink has been spilled reflecting upon the historically contingent nature of race as a category, and as a lived experience. Bringing together the case studies of the interwar sites of Harlem, Paris, and London and, in the post-World War Two period of decolonization, the cities of Algiers and Dakar, this article is a contribution to ongoing conversations about how we might develop a critical conceptual apparatus for understanding the…
Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon
Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’
Throughout the 20 th century, women were leading intellectuals on International Relations (IR). They thought, wrote, and taught on this subject in numerous political, professional, intimate, and intellectual contexts. They wrote some of the earliest and most powerful theoretical statements of what would later become core approaches to contemporary international theory. Yet, historical women, those working before the late 20 th century, are almost…
On canons and question marks: The work of women’s international thought
The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and a…
Cheikh Anta Diop’s Recovery of Egypt: African History as Anticolonial Practice
In his path-breaking 1954 monograph, Nations nègres et culture , the Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop denounced Western histories for providing false justification for European imperialism and perpetuating notions of the inferiority of Black peoples. Diop called instead for histories that revalorized the African past and demonstrated Black contributions to world history. By contextualizing Diop’s historiographical interventions in terms of h…
Recovering Women's International Thought: Past and Present Futures
Reply essay
Race in the Modern World: An Intellectual History
Few ideas have had a more powerful effect on the modern world than that of race, yet few ideas are less understood. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars, this volume traces the crystallisation of this concept in western intellectual discourse in the eighteenth century, its rapid rise to prominence as a governing concept across the world from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, and its legacy from…
‘The Intellectual Equipment of Mankind’: Unesco, Scientific Authority and the Problem of Race, 1950–1967
In 1950 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) published the first of two Statements on race, The Race Concept. The document was intended to bring the full weight of scientific authority to the condemnation of racism, and specifically, the kind of racism that had characterised the National Socialist regime in Hitler’s Germany during the Second World War. Whilst many were enthusiastic about the unequivocal co…
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