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Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics  EDITED BY i MARC WOONS & SEBASTIAN WEIER Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics This e-book is provided without charge via free download by E-International Relations (www.E-IR.info). It is not permitted to be sold in electronic format under any circumstances. If you enjoy our free e-books, please consider leaving a small donation to allow us to continue investing in open access publications: http://www.e-ir.info/about/donate/ i Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics EDITED BY MARC WOONS & SEBASTIAN WEIER ii Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics E-International Relations www.E-IR.info Bristol, England 2017 ISBN 978-1-910814-22-2 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-910814-23-9 (e-book) This book is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. 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Production: Michael Tang Cover Image: coffmancmu via Depositphotos A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library iii Abstract While the current problems of the international system have led many scholars to examine the normative values of the inter-state system and global governance, the impact of cultural border constructions and contestations are generally of second-order interest in international relations (IR) research. Civilizational borders, racial borders, or other cultural borders are often taken as constants to think from rather than internally unstable variables with a considerable crisis potential for both IR theory and practice. Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics combines social science and cultural studies approaches to IR, showing why contemporary Border Studies needs to be trans-disciplinary if it is to avoid reproducing the epistemological and political order that has led to contemporary global crises like the rise of ISIS, global migration, or increasing contestations of the State form as such. Gathering contributions from Gender, Black, Religious and Post-/Decolonial Studies, the volume contributes to decolonial thinking and related concepts such as border thinking in IR. The volume offers a critical epistemology of global politics and proposes an enriched vision of borders, both analytically and politically, that not only seeks to understand but also to reshape and expand the meanings and consequences of IR. iv Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics Acknowledgements The editors of this volume would like to thank the faculty and participants in the “Borders, Borderlands, Border thinking” Summer Institute that was co- organized by the University of Bremen, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University at the University of Bremen from 15-26 May 2015. They especially want to thank the German Academic Exchange Service, whose generous funding made this volume possible. Special thanks also goes to Stephen McGlinchey, Editor-in-Chief of E-International Relations, and the rest of the publishing team whose enthusiasm and support played a crucial role in seeing this project through to fruition. --- Marc Woons is a Doctoral Fellow with the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (Research Foundation – Flanders) and the Research in Political Philosophy Leuven (RIPPLE) Institute at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He has published numerous articles on settler colonialism and Indigenous-state relations and edited Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination: Theoretical and Practical Approaches (E-International Relations, 2015). Sebastian Weier is currently an independent researcher in the field of Border Studies and American Studies. He studied Political Sciences and Cultural Studies and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bremen for a dissertation on “Cyborg Black Studies: Tracing the Impact of Technological Change on the Constitution of Blackness”. v vi Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics Contents CONTRIBUTORS viii INTRODUCTION Sebastian Weier & Marc Woons 1 1. INTERVIEW WITH WALTER D. MIGNOLO 11 2. DECOLONIAL FEMINISM AND GLOBAL POLITICS: BORDER THINKING AND VULNERABILITY AS A KNOWING OTHERWISE Rosalba Icaza 26 3. DECOLONISING THE ANTHROPOCENE: THE MYTHO-POLITICS OF HUMAN MASTERY Karsten A. Schulz 46 4. COLONIAL ANIMALITY: CONSTITUTING CANADIAN SETTLER COLONIALISM THROUGH THE HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIP Azeezah Kanji 63 5. A POST/DECOLONIAL GEOGRAPHY BEYOND ‘THE LANGUAGE OF THE MOUTH’ Amber Murrey 79 6. ONTOLOGICIDAL VIOLENCE: MODERNITY/COLONIALITY AND THE MUSLIM SUBJECT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Pierre-Alexandre Cardinal 100 7. MULTICULTURALISM AT THE CROSSROADS: LEARNING BEYOND THE WEST Marc Woons 116 8. DE-EUROPEANISING EUROPEAN BORDERS: EU-MOROCCO NEGOTIATIONS ON MIGRATIONS AND THE DECENTRING AGENDA IN EU STUDIES Nora El Qadim 134 9. ‘UNGOVERNED SPACES?’ THE ISLAMIC STATE’S CHALLENGE TO (POST-)WESTPHALIAN ‘ORDER’ Matt Gordner 152 Contents vii 10. ‘WHAT GOES ON IN THE COFFIN’: BORDER KNOWLEDGES IN NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE Astrid M. Fellner & Susanne Hamscha 171 11. THE INFORMAL COLONIALISM OF EGYPTOLOGY: FROM THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO THE SECURITY STATE Christian Langer 182 12. FUGITIVITY AGAINST THE BORDER: AFRO-PESSIMISM, FUGITIVITY, AND THE BORDER TO SOCIAL DEATH Paula von Gleich 203 13. INTERVIEW WITH JULIANE HAMMER 216 NOTE ON INDEXING 227 viii Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics Contributors Pierre-Alexandre Cardinal graduated from Law School at the University of Ottawa in both Civil and Common law, with a previous degree in Development Studies. His current projects include the conclusion of a Master of Law degree at McGill University. His thesis is a (decolonial) inquiry into the nature of the legal relations between Persia and Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This is a first step in a larger research project questioning the underlying assumptions of Eurocentric international law, and more specifically its ‘ontologicidal’ ambivalences in its relations with the ‘periphery’ of Europe. Pierre-Alexandre is also engaging in a post-colonial and post- humanist critique of international environmental law. Nora El Qadim, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris 8-Vincennes Saint-Denis, and a researcher at the CRESPPA-LabTop. She recently published a book on EU-Morocco negotiations on migration policy entitled Le gouvernement asymétrique des migrations. Maroc-Union européenne (Dalloz, 2015). Her research concentrates on migration policies, on the discriminations they create, and on the various forms of resistances that exist when it comes to these policies, especially in the South. Astrid Fellner is Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies and Vice-President for European and International Affairs at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. After teaching at the University of Vienna, she also held the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair at Stanford University. Her monographs include Articulating Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self- Representation (2002) and Bodily Sensations: The Female Body in Late- Eighteenth-Century American Culture (forthcoming). She has also published a series of articles and co-edited books in the fields of U.S. Latino/a literature, Canadian literature, Gender/Queer Studies, and Cultural Studies. Paula von Gleich is a doctoral candidate of American Studies at the University of Bremen’s Department of Languages and Literatures. She is member of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies and of the doctoral network Perspectives in Cultural Analysis: Black Diaspora, Decoloniality, and Transnationality in Bremen. She received her master’s degree in Transnational Literary Studies and the bachelor’s degree in Contributors ix English-Speaking Cultures at the University of Bremen. The past recipient of a Bridge scholarship from the University of Bremen, she currently receives a doctoral fellowship from the German foundation Evangelisches Studienwerk. Her dissertation focuses on border concepts in contemporary African American theory and narratives of captivity and fugitivity since slavery until today. Her broader research interests include African American and Black diasporic literature and theory, critical race studies, and postcolonial and transnational literary studies. Matt Gordner is a Tunis-based doctoral student in the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science and a 2016-2017 American Political Science Association (APSA) Middle East and North Africa Civil Society Fellow specializing in comparative and development politics with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. His work, published in a number of academic journals, including Middle East Topic and Arguments (META); In- Spire: Journal of Law, Politics, and Societies; Illumine: Journal of the Centre for the Study of Religion; and the U.N.-sponsored Global Education Magazine, examines the politics of democratization and authoritarianism,
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