Branwen Gruffydd Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Branwen Gruffydd Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Branwen Gruffydd |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES B G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9204-1621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Amílcar Cabral and the International
Anticolonial poetics
This paper explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boundaries of colonized and racialized worlds in the works of militant poets of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. From the 1940s to the 1960s a distinct form of anticolonial poetry emerged written by a generation of Angolans and Mozambicans who became involved in the liberation struggles. The paper examines how poetry served as a vehicle to imagine an…
Sónia Vaz Borges, Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness. The Paigc Education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978
Movements in Africa and Europe led by students and youth are calling for decolonisation of the university, decolonisation of the curriculum. Two of the most widely known earlier works addressing such questions are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonising the Mind (1986) and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1972). Probably far less widely known is the actual project of decolonising minds, institutions and curriculums constructed by the PAIGC in t…
Race, Culture and Liberation
This article explores the contribution of Amílcar Cabral and his fellow militants to debates over culture, race and liberation which took place among Africans and beyond during the mid-twentieth century. By the late 1950s African struggles for independence had reached a point of urgency. Alongside complex negotiations over political settlement and many wars of liberation across the continent, equally complex conversations took place about race, c…
Time, History, Politics
One of the most significant elements of the international relations of the twentieth century was the transformation from a colonial to a postcolonial world order. That transformation, contested, lengthy and uneven, was the fruit of struggles by colonised peoples for independence. The postcolonial experience has proved very different from that hoped for by the anticolonial generation. From the perspective of our own times, how can we learn from th…
Appearances and Realities of Post-War Reconstruction in Mozambique
Mozambique is widely promoted on the world stage as a success story. The international community celebrates Mozambique's success in achieving lasting peace after decades of war; in implementing economic and political reforms; attaining impressive and steady economic growth; and promoting peace, democracy and reform in the region of southern Africa. But what is the reality underlying this shining image of success and post-war reconstruction? This …
Definitions and Categories
One of the striking and important features of The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics is the breadth and depth of literature over two and a half centuries which is examined. Hobson reveals irrefutably the centrality of racialised thought to the foundations of the disciplinary field of International Relations. Such an exercise necessarily encounters difficult methodological questions. This contribution to the forum reflects on the methodologi…
Le Malentendu International
The discipline of International Relations and cognate fields of Comparative Politics and Development Studies have more or less successfully contained the study of Africa’s condition within the limits of the dominant Western imagination, with grave consequences. Africa is seen and analyzed as a site of weak states and neopatrimonial rule. The continued dominance and ubiquity of such analytical vocabularies and their underlying methods rests on man…
From rupture to revolution
This article considers the development of the political thought of the lusophone African anti-colonial movements, and their engagement with negritude. Some of the leading figures of the lusophone African anti-colonial movements of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe were deeply engaged in poetry and literature, and during the 1950s and the 1960s some of them participated directly in some of the contexts of and deb…
African political thought of the twentieth century
This special issue focuses on African political thought, as it emerged in the context of and contributed to fundamental changes in world order during the twentieth century, and as it continues to s
Good governance’ and ‘state failure’
Current international policy discourse routinely characterizes the condition of African states in terms of either ‘good governance’, on one hand, or ‘fragility’ and ‘failure’, on the other. This conceptual vocabulary and analytical approach has become entrenched within the public imagination more broadly, and is reproduced in academic analysis, largely without serious questioning or critique. Some scholars, however, have argued that the entire di…
Civilising African Cities
Scholars of global governmentality and the neo/liberal project in Africa have exposed the ambitions of change directed at individual, institutional, societal, political and economic levels contained within international development policies. This article examines international agendas and interventions in the realm of housing and urban governance in Africa, as a distinct component of broader ambitions to build liberal states and civil societies. …
Bankable Slums’
This article develops a critical analysis of the Slum Upgrading Facility, a new initiative of UN-Habitat which seeks to improve conditions for residents of slums in Africa and elsewhere. The analysis highlights the neoliberal principles underpinning this initiative, and especially the vision of slum improvement by means of financialisation. The article argues that it is necessary and important to recognise the politics of international urban deve…
The global political economy of social crisis
The notion of 'failed states' has gained widespread currency in political and academic discourse. This article contributes to a critique of the 'failed states' discourse. It identifies methodological flaws in the 'failed states' discourse which undermine its explanatory power, and proposes an alternative framework for analysing conditions of social crisis in neocolonial states, rooted in global political economy. This paper focuses on conditions …
Race in the Ontology of International Order
The current world order is characterised by profound global inequality, depicted through reference to the developed and developing world. The racialised character of global inequalities in power is rarely acknowledged, however. Explicit racial discourse has been removed from the institutional form of the modern world order, and this apparent transcendence of race is mirrored in the lack of attention to race within mainstream scholarship in Intern…
Explaining Global Poverty
The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west and the impoverished developing world is a complex problem. This book recognises that Africa in particular has manifested this global disgrace and symbolizes the nature of poverty to the western world. In order to truly emancipate the poverty stricken around the world we mus…
Another World is Possible
As 2007 opens, the world's attention is predominantly focused on the worsening crisis and imperialist violence in Iraq and now, too, Somalia. In both cases, the current context has roots in the con
Africa and the Poverty of International Relations
The modern condition of poverty in Africa is a global phenomenon, the outcome of world-historical processes of social change, and reproduced by globally structured social relations. This is obscured in academic analysis. The 20th century division of labour produced an absence of theorising the international from the discipline of Development Studies, and an absence of poverty from the concerns of International Relations. Neither Development Studi…
Globalisations, violences and resistances in Mozambique
Attention is being drawn with increasing frequency to the phenomenon of an, the or many anti-globalisation movement/s. While the term globalisation suggests some common process happening everywhere, exactly what that involves necessarily varies widely according to context – the world, as many have pointed out, is becoming ‘globalised’, but in most respects it is not becoming homogenised. What does this mean for our understanding of what constitut…
On Sean Creaven's Marxism and Realism
'The Massive Presence of the Past and the Outside'
ritical realism was first developed in a particular context, both epistemological and historical. Roy Bhaskar intervened in the philosophical critiques of positivism which had reached an ‘impasse’. Against positivism, existing critiques had emphasized the socially constructed nature of scientific knowledge, but failed to challenge positivism’s theory of reality—its ontology; which Bhaskar went on to do. As Bhaskar observes, the demise of positivi…
The Civilised Horrors of Over-work
In the 21 st century a vast number of people in Africa are direct producers, working very hard on the land to gain a meagre living -- they are the 'rural poor'. The condition of poverty in Africa is widely portrayed in both academic and popular discourse as a result of local factors, whether political, social, cultural or natural. This article argues for an historical materialist approach which exposes the condition of widespread routine poverty …
After International Relations
(2002). After International Relations: critical realism and the (re)construction of world politics. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 147-157
The global political economy of social crisis
The notion of 'failed states' has gained widespread currency in political and academic discourse. This article contributes to a critique of the 'failed states' discourse. It identifies methodological flaws in the 'failed states' discourse which undermine its explanatory power, and proposes an alternative framework for analysing conditions of social crisis in neocolonial states, rooted in global political economy. This paper focuses on conditions …
Race in the Ontology of International Order
The current world order is characterised by profound global inequality, depicted through reference to the developed and developing world. The racialised character of global inequalities in power is rarely acknowledged, however. Explicit racial discourse has been removed from the institutional form of the modern world order, and this apparent transcendence of race is mirrored in the lack of attention to race within mainstream scholarship in Intern…
Bankable Slums’
This article develops a critical analysis of the Slum Upgrading Facility, a new initiative of UN-Habitat which seeks to improve conditions for residents of slums in Africa and elsewhere. The analysis highlights the neoliberal principles underpinning this initiative, and especially the vision of slum improvement by means of financialisation. The article argues that it is necessary and important to recognise the politics of international urban deve…
Good governance’ and ‘state failure’
Current international policy discourse routinely characterizes the condition of African states in terms of either ‘good governance’, on one hand, or ‘fragility’ and ‘failure’, on the other. This conceptual vocabulary and analytical approach has become entrenched within the public imagination more broadly, and is reproduced in academic analysis, largely without serious questioning or critique. Some scholars, however, have argued that the entire di…
Race, Culture and Liberation
This article explores the contribution of Amílcar Cabral and his fellow militants to debates over culture, race and liberation which took place among Africans and beyond during the mid-twentieth century. By the late 1950s African struggles for independence had reached a point of urgency. Alongside complex negotiations over political settlement and many wars of liberation across the continent, equally complex conversations took place about race, c…
From rupture to revolution
This article considers the development of the political thought of the lusophone African anti-colonial movements, and their engagement with negritude. Some of the leading figures of the lusophone African anti-colonial movements of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe were deeply engaged in poetry and literature, and during the 1950s and the 1960s some of them participated directly in some of the contexts of and deb…
Africa and the Poverty of International Relations
The modern condition of poverty in Africa is a global phenomenon, the outcome of world-historical processes of social change, and reproduced by globally structured social relations. This is obscured in academic analysis. The 20th century division of labour produced an absence of theorising the international from the discipline of Development Studies, and an absence of poverty from the concerns of International Relations. Neither Development Studi…
Definitions and Categories
One of the striking and important features of The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics is the breadth and depth of literature over two and a half centuries which is examined. Hobson reveals irrefutably the centrality of racialised thought to the foundations of the disciplinary field of International Relations. Such an exercise necessarily encounters difficult methodological questions. This contribution to the forum reflects on the methodologi…
Civilising African Cities
Scholars of global governmentality and the neo/liberal project in Africa have exposed the ambitions of change directed at individual, institutional, societal, political and economic levels contained within international development policies. This article examines international agendas and interventions in the realm of housing and urban governance in Africa, as a distinct component of broader ambitions to build liberal states and civil societies. …
Sónia Vaz Borges, Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness. The Paigc Education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978
Movements in Africa and Europe led by students and youth are calling for decolonisation of the university, decolonisation of the curriculum. Two of the most widely known earlier works addressing such questions are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonising the Mind (1986) and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1972). Probably far less widely known is the actual project of decolonising minds, institutions and curriculums constructed by the PAIGC in t…
The Civilised Horrors of Over-work
In the 21 st century a vast number of people in Africa are direct producers, working very hard on the land to gain a meagre living -- they are the 'rural poor'. The condition of poverty in Africa is widely portrayed in both academic and popular discourse as a result of local factors, whether political, social, cultural or natural. This article argues for an historical materialist approach which exposes the condition of widespread routine poverty …
After International Relations
(2002). After International Relations: critical realism and the (re)construction of world politics. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 147-157
'The Massive Presence of the Past and the Outside'
ritical realism was first developed in a particular context, both epistemological and historical. Roy Bhaskar intervened in the philosophical critiques of positivism which had reached an ‘impasse’. Against positivism, existing critiques had emphasized the socially constructed nature of scientific knowledge, but failed to challenge positivism’s theory of reality—its ontology; which Bhaskar went on to do. As Bhaskar observes, the demise of positivi…
The Civilised Horrors of Over-work
In the 21 st century a vast number of people in Africa are direct producers, working very hard on the land to gain a meagre living -- they are the 'rural poor'. The condition of poverty in Africa is widely portrayed in both academic and popular discourse as a result of local factors, whether political, social, cultural or natural. This article argues for an historical materialist approach which exposes the condition of widespread routine poverty …
Globalisations, violences and resistances in Mozambique
Attention is being drawn with increasing frequency to the phenomenon of an, the or many anti-globalisation movement/s. While the term globalisation suggests some common process happening everywhere, exactly what that involves necessarily varies widely according to context – the world, as many have pointed out, is becoming ‘globalised’, but in most respects it is not becoming homogenised. What does this mean for our understanding of what constitut…
On Sean Creaven's Marxism and Realism
Africa and the Poverty of International Relations
The modern condition of poverty in Africa is a global phenomenon, the outcome of world-historical processes of social change, and reproduced by globally structured social relations. This is obscured in academic analysis. The 20th century division of labour produced an absence of theorising the international from the discipline of Development Studies, and an absence of poverty from the concerns of International Relations. Neither Development Studi…
Explaining Global Poverty
The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west and the impoverished developing world is a complex problem. This book recognises that Africa in particular has manifested this global disgrace and symbolizes the nature of poverty to the western world. In order to truly emancipate the poverty stricken around the world we mus…
Another World is Possible
As 2007 opens, the world's attention is predominantly focused on the worsening crisis and imperialist violence in Iraq and now, too, Somalia. In both cases, the current context has roots in the con
The global political economy of social crisis
The notion of 'failed states' has gained widespread currency in political and academic discourse. This article contributes to a critique of the 'failed states' discourse. It identifies methodological flaws in the 'failed states' discourse which undermine its explanatory power, and proposes an alternative framework for analysing conditions of social crisis in neocolonial states, rooted in global political economy. This paper focuses on conditions …
Race in the Ontology of International Order
The current world order is characterised by profound global inequality, depicted through reference to the developed and developing world. The racialised character of global inequalities in power is rarely acknowledged, however. Explicit racial discourse has been removed from the institutional form of the modern world order, and this apparent transcendence of race is mirrored in the lack of attention to race within mainstream scholarship in Intern…
Civilising African Cities
Scholars of global governmentality and the neo/liberal project in Africa have exposed the ambitions of change directed at individual, institutional, societal, political and economic levels contained within international development policies. This article examines international agendas and interventions in the realm of housing and urban governance in Africa, as a distinct component of broader ambitions to build liberal states and civil societies. …
Bankable Slums’
This article develops a critical analysis of the Slum Upgrading Facility, a new initiative of UN-Habitat which seeks to improve conditions for residents of slums in Africa and elsewhere. The analysis highlights the neoliberal principles underpinning this initiative, and especially the vision of slum improvement by means of financialisation. The article argues that it is necessary and important to recognise the politics of international urban deve…
Good governance’ and ‘state failure’
Current international policy discourse routinely characterizes the condition of African states in terms of either ‘good governance’, on one hand, or ‘fragility’ and ‘failure’, on the other. This conceptual vocabulary and analytical approach has become entrenched within the public imagination more broadly, and is reproduced in academic analysis, largely without serious questioning or critique. Some scholars, however, have argued that the entire di…
Le Malentendu International
The discipline of International Relations and cognate fields of Comparative Politics and Development Studies have more or less successfully contained the study of Africa’s condition within the limits of the dominant Western imagination, with grave consequences. Africa is seen and analyzed as a site of weak states and neopatrimonial rule. The continued dominance and ubiquity of such analytical vocabularies and their underlying methods rests on man…
From rupture to revolution
This article considers the development of the political thought of the lusophone African anti-colonial movements, and their engagement with negritude. Some of the leading figures of the lusophone African anti-colonial movements of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe were deeply engaged in poetry and literature, and during the 1950s and the 1960s some of them participated directly in some of the contexts of and deb…
African political thought of the twentieth century
This special issue focuses on African political thought, as it emerged in the context of and contributed to fundamental changes in world order during the twentieth century, and as it continues to s
Definitions and Categories
One of the striking and important features of The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics is the breadth and depth of literature over two and a half centuries which is examined. Hobson reveals irrefutably the centrality of racialised thought to the foundations of the disciplinary field of International Relations. Such an exercise necessarily encounters difficult methodological questions. This contribution to the forum reflects on the methodologi…
Appearances and Realities of Post-War Reconstruction in Mozambique
Mozambique is widely promoted on the world stage as a success story. The international community celebrates Mozambique's success in achieving lasting peace after decades of war; in implementing economic and political reforms; attaining impressive and steady economic growth; and promoting peace, democracy and reform in the region of southern Africa. But what is the reality underlying this shining image of success and post-war reconstruction? This …
Time, History, Politics
One of the most significant elements of the international relations of the twentieth century was the transformation from a colonial to a postcolonial world order. That transformation, contested, lengthy and uneven, was the fruit of struggles by colonised peoples for independence. The postcolonial experience has proved very different from that hoped for by the anticolonial generation. From the perspective of our own times, how can we learn from th…
Sónia Vaz Borges, Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness. The Paigc Education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978
Movements in Africa and Europe led by students and youth are calling for decolonisation of the university, decolonisation of the curriculum. Two of the most widely known earlier works addressing such questions are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonising the Mind (1986) and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1972). Probably far less widely known is the actual project of decolonising minds, institutions and curriculums constructed by the PAIGC in t…
Race, Culture and Liberation
This article explores the contribution of Amílcar Cabral and his fellow militants to debates over culture, race and liberation which took place among Africans and beyond during the mid-twentieth century. By the late 1950s African struggles for independence had reached a point of urgency. Alongside complex negotiations over political settlement and many wars of liberation across the continent, equally complex conversations took place about race, c…
Amílcar Cabral and the International
Anticolonial poetics
This paper explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boundaries of colonized and racialized worlds in the works of militant poets of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. From the 1940s to the 1960s a distinct form of anticolonial poetry emerged written by a generation of Angolans and Mozambicans who became involved in the liberation struggles. The paper examines how poetry served as a vehicle to imagine an…
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