We are looking for another paper to complete a panel at the ISA Conference in Accra; note that the deadline is tight. Please email directly with any questions and kindly circulate to anyone who might be interested in participating.
Call for Papers for Panel at The I<https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA-Accra-2019/Call>nternational Studies Association<mailto:https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA-Accra-2019>
University of Ghana, Accra, 1 – 3 August 2019
Critical Practices for Collectively Challenging Academic Imperialism
Chairs: Holly Oberle, Political Science at the American University in Cairo, and Amber Murrey, Human Geography at the University of Oxford
This panel demands that we take seriously calls for intellectual conviviality, decolonization, and solidarity. At the same time, we question the ongoing replication of Western liberal arts and social science curricula within universities located in the Global South. This critique extends to the rise of hegemonic calls for South-South and North-South cooperation that nonetheless leave foundational features of the operations and structures of global inequality unquestioned. In addressing these ambiguities and disparities, this panel considers:
* What forms of intellectual and academic solidarity (might) effectively challenge entrenched hierarchies within international university exchanges?
* What pedagogical and methodological frames do we draw from to teach foreign policy, International Relations, political geography and other critical social sciences in ways that challenge academic imperialism, exclusion, and marginalization?
We are particularly interested in papers drawing from anti-racist, Pan-African, Pan-Arab, feminist, critical pedagogy, and other critical scholarships while building from particular teaching, workshopping, and classroom experiences in the Global South.
Please send abstracts (150 words) to Holly Oberle ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Amber Murrey ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Monday 21 January.
Information about the International Studies Association Conference
Exploring the Agency of the Global South in International Studies (Practices)
Global South (GS) actors have become increasingly influential in international politics, conspicuous in their role in international trade, international security and climate change negotiations, and a range of new ‘South-South’ cooperation and partnerships. Although the Global South is increasingly prominent in international relations and attracts interest from a variety of actors, on many fronts it remains entangled in the seemingly immovable structures of international inequality, high levels of poverty and underdevelopment, often fragile economies and weak political and military capacity, and recurrent instabilities.
The question of the persistence of this characterization of Global South, notwithstanding this new and emerging role in international affairs, is relevant. One view is that GS actors are considered minor/small/periphery in the international system and thus serve as a set of cases through which to explore the view of international studies that begins somewhere other than with the great actors. Another approach would be to highlight the on-going debate about the ways in which the GS sits uncomfortably within the discipline of International Relations and thus acutely poses questions about the universality of IR’s theoretical constructs. Another is that the GS does in fact matter for a range of policy areas, particularly those involving multilateral collective action, or areas where there are marked relations of interdependence. Drawing on all of these, actors in the Global South can serve as a limiting case – that is if anywhere might be characterized as most bound by existing structures of power surely it is in the Global South.
Therefore, a focus on agency allows us to frame an analysis which foregrounds the GS and other actors as serious/contending objects of study and stands in sharp contrast to the standard approach to analyses in international studies. This in effect enables us to flip and move beyond the narratives of both scholarly and practical questions such as how external actors such as aid donors and great powers old and new have impacted the most marginalized in the Global South.
Some representative questions the theme might address include:
* What is the nature and extent of Global South states/actors’ Agency in international politics?
* Are there constraints on that/these agency/ies? What are their sources?
* What are the analytical and theoretical implications for International studies of a study of GS agency?
* Do the diversities (non-homogeneous) in the Global South act as constraints and/or as opportunities for the advancement of their agencies?
* What is the nature and what are the implications of the South-South cooperation (Past, Present and future)?
* How do strategies such as interregional cooperation contribute to the flipping of the regions’ narratives of marginalization and victimhood?
Please note that the conference is bilingual and this means that participants can submit papers and roundtable proposals in both English and French; it also means that presentations can also be done in both languages. However, all communications and all activities involving the use of our system can only be done in English, which is the official language of the ISA.
Amber Murrey
Associate Professor of Human Geography
School of Geography and the Environment
University of Oxford
Twitter: @Amber.Murrey
Recent -
"‘When Spider Webs Unite They Can Tie up a Lion’: Anti-Racism, Decolonial Options and Theories from the South” <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315624495/chapters/10.4324/9781315624495-4> in Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations, Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E and Daley, P (eds.). London: Routledge.
Learning from Six Centuries of Racist Ideas for an Anti-Racist Future<https://hugeog.com/learning-from-six-centuries-of-racist-ideas-to-create-an-anti-racist-future/>. Human Geography - A New Radical Journal 33(11).
'A Certain Amount of Madness’ The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara<https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337579/a-certain-amount-of-madness/>. London: Pluto Press.
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