From the Everyday to IR
In Defence of the Strategic Use of the R-word
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4465387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, Olivia Rutazibwa (0000-0002-1123-2355, University of Portsmouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-200 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postcolonial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8790 • E-ISSN: 1466-1888 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688790.2016.1254016 |
| OpenAlex | W2572322811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
Rather than scrutinising who is a racist or not in John Hobson's seminal work on the scientific racism and Eurocentric institutionalism of a selection of canonical thinkers on world politics since 1760, this essay seeks to engage with its strategic reluctance to use racism as a lens to understand the post-1945 world. The aim is to draw attention to the fact that analytical categories, apart from imperfect attempts to render reality intelligible, are a deeply normative enterprise that implicitly or explicitly seek to render (parts of) reality for a certain purpose. Building on a vignette of the yearly racism-related debate around the figure of Zwarte Piet or Black Pete in contemporary Flanders, the text reflects on the extent to which R-word strategic reluctance, in public debates and IR alike, (dis)serves an anti-racist decolonial ethos and if and to what extent John Hobson's analytical choices unwillingly are a part of this
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| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |