Placing opacity at the centre may enable the problematisation of external projects of intervention, no matter how ‘enabling’ they set out to be.
Social and international relations should be based on complementarity, reciprocity, and solidarity among all parties.
Racialised communities across metropoles such as Beirut, Singapore and Edinburgh have contested questions of the past, of history, and of memory.
The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean design and practice forms of existence based on ancestral epistemological and ontological structures.
Gurminder K. Bhambra discusses her interdisciplinary approach, colonialism and modern social theory, Britain as an empire, and decolonising education.
Attempts at addressing the Eurocentrism of the field have predominantly focused on how to make present what was absented from the narrative of the making of the international.
Chamindra Weerawardhana discusses decolonial intersectional feminist epistemology, transfeminist politics, LGBTIQ+ rights in South Asia, activism and decolonising peacebuilding.
Frances Cruz talks about decolonial approaches to IR, as well as the limits of Western-centric framings of the Philippines and Southeast Asia more broadly.
Fruitfully sustaining a dilemma or paradox teaches us to create a different kind of decolonial approach, enabling action while also treasuring the reflexivity and circularity of a more humble starting point.
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