Researching the Colonial International Across, Between, and Against Disciplines

Colonial / Postcolonial / Decolonial Working Group

Call for interventions/workshop participants

Travel funding available

 

 

Colonial/ Postcolonial/ Decolonial Working Group Annual Workshop 2017: 

Researching the Colonial International Across, Between, and Against Disciplines

 

 

With Goldie Osuri, Virinder Kalra, Rashmi Varma and Kojo Koram

University of Warwick, 22nd September 2017

 

 

International Relations has often borrowed theories and methods from elsewhere to think beyond its own disciplinary limits. Similarly, interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary scholarship has long been central to thinking about the colonial question. Indeed, a key insight of postcolonial scholarship is that disciplines are themselves products of colonial practices. At the same time, in the field of International Relations and beyond, the demands of publishing, researching, teaching and hiring continue to reproduce strict disciplinary boundaries. More positively, disciplines often offer a scholarly home, a shared language and common problems that help orient our work.

 

This workshop will examine how such tensions affect and direct…

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