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Against Bringing Africa “Back-In”

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This chapter considers the issue of recentering Africa is IR by rejecting calls for “bringing Africa back in.” It argues that Africa does not need to be brought back in, for the continent is already integral to colonial-capitalist modernity and its violent processes of domination and exploitation. What is needed, instead is, it suggests, a displacement of the global colonial matrices of power and the fashioning of alternative decolonial visions that “re-members” Africa as an important global region through a decolonial praxis, critical thought, and self-assertion.

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  1. Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa

    Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

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  1. Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

    Marta Iñiguez de Heredia

  2. Department of Political Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada

    Zubairu Wai

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Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. (2018). Against Bringing Africa “Back-In”. In: Iñiguez de Heredia, M., Wai, Z. (eds) Recentering Africa in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67510-7_11

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