Through, against and beyond the racial state: the transnational stratum of race

Thompson, Debra

doi:10.1080/09557571.2012.762898

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“…This echoesThompson's (2015) argument regarding disciplinary IR's 'racial aphasia'one particularly extreme symptom of neo-positivist IR's more general unwillingness to seriously engage history.…”

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History, theory, and contingency in the study of modern international relations: the global transformation revisited

Anievas

2016

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Debates engaging the problems of ahistoricism and Eurocentrism in International Relations (IR) theory have taken on new dimensions in recent years. Scholars from a variety of different theoretical traditions have aimed to reconstruct IR theory on stronger historical–sociological grounds, while re-orienting the study of IR away from the fetish of ‘Western’ thought and agency. Buzan and Lawson’s The Global Transformation offers a welcome contribution to these endeavours to furnish a non-Eurocentric historical sociology of international relations. This article seeks to push their project further by re-assessing the relationship between history, theory, and contingency. In particular, it interrogates whether Buzan and Lawson’s ‘configurational’ approach to the ‘global transformation’, emphasizing the contingent concatenation of historical events and social processes, results in a displacement of theory through an over-emphasis on the interaction of free-floating contingently related causes, causes that are external to any theoretical schema. This approach obscures the deeper, structural forces in the making of global modernity, most notably those that escape Buzan and Lawson’s singular focus on the ‘long 19th century’.

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History, theory, and contingency in the study of modern international relations: the global transformation revisited

Anievas

2016

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“…137 The ways and extent to which racialisations are part of the (explicit and implicit) designations of 'entrepreneurship' 'on the ground' within these contexts, as well as in production about them, is a subject that merits investigation, in order to further our understandings of how humanitarian individuals and institutions 'filter the global idea of race'. 138 In those investigations, it will be important to remember that different positionings of refugeesas anti-communist heroes, as depoliticised masses of women and children, and as 'entrepreneurs'are all inextricably connected with ideas about race, as well as gender, class, and other structures. Since the generic figure of the 'entrepreneur' signifies whiteness, masculinity, mobility, class privilege, abstract thinking, 130 and bodily ability, the idea of the 'refugee entrepreneur' foregrounds and praises those refugees who are able to (be perceived to) embody these traits.…”

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‘#Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees

Turner

2019

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In the context of a greater focus on the politics of migration, the 'refugee entrepreneur' has become an increasingly important figure in humanitarian, media, and academic portrayals of refugees. Through a focus on Jordan's Za'tari refugee camp, which has been deemed a showcase for refugees' 'entrepreneurship', this article argues that the designation of Syrian refugees as 'entrepreneurs' is a positioning of Syrians within colonial hierarchies of race that pervade humanitarian work. For many humanitarian workers in Jordan, Syrians' 'entrepreneurship' distinguishes them from 'African' refugees, who are imagined as passive, impoverished, and dependent on humanitarian largesse. Without explicit racial comparisons, humanitarian agencies simultaneously market Syrian refugees online as 'entrepreneurs', to enable them to be perceived as closer to whiteness, and to thereby render them more acceptable to Western audiences and donors, who are imagined as white. This article extends scholarly understandings of the understudied relationship between race and humanitarianism. Furthermore, it asks critical questions about the political work and effects of vision of the 'refugee entrepreneur', which it locates within the context of the increasingly neoliberalised refugee regime. 'Refugee entrepreneurs' do not need political support and solidarity, but to be allowed to embrace the forces of free-market capitalism.Mark Duffield, 'The liberal way of development and the developmentsecurity impasse: Exploring the global life-chance divide', Security Dialogue, 41:1 (2010), pp. 53-76; Mark Duffield, 'Challenging environments: Danger, resilience and the aid industry', Security Dialogue, 43:5 (2012), pp. 475-92; Evan Easton-Calabria and Naohiko Omata, 'Panacea for the refugee crisis? Rethinking the promotion of "self-reliance" for refugees',

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“…5 nation-states and their expansion…laid the bedrock for entrenched racial orders of the modern world." (Thompson, 2013). Nationalism neatly propped up and was nestled within a global binary framework of 'civilisations' and races (Persaud, 2002).…”

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Escaping the Nation in the Middle East: A Doomed Project? Fanonian Decolonisation and the Muslim Brotherhood

Gani

2019

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Escaping the Nation in the Middle East: A Doomed Project? Fanonian Decolonisation and the Muslim Brotherhood This article has two goals: first, it seeks to outline the dissonance between nationalist self-determination and a decolonial pursuit of independence using Fanon's blueprint for decolonisation. Second, it interrogates the decolonial potential in Fanon's blueprint, and asks whether anti-colonial groups can ever truly escape the inheritance of a Eurocentric nation-state despite their decolonial intent. To explore these themes, the article focuses on Hasan Al-Banna's ideology and vision for the Muslim Brotherhood in the first half of the twentieth century. In its search for independence from the British, his movement rebuffed liberal models of national self-determination and pursued an alternative political imagining that was delinked from the coloniality of the nation-state. Drawing upon Banna's memoirs, speeches and political tracts and Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, this paper explores the parallels between Banna's vision of independence and Fanon's decolonial call for international solidarities and national consciousness as alternatives to nationalism. The paper goes on to argue that, ultimately, anti-colonial groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood have struggled to escape the colonial tethering of independence to the nation-state and its various trappings of coloniality.

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Through, against and beyond the racial state: the transnational stratum of race

Cited by 33 publications

References 66 publications

History, theory, and contingency in the study of modern international relations: the global transformation revisited

History, theory, and contingency in the study of modern international relations: the global transformation revisited

‘#Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees

Escaping the Nation in the Middle East: A Doomed Project? Fanonian Decolonisation and the Muslim Brotherhood

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