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Jasmine K. Gani

Jasmine K. Gani is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and Co-Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies. She writes and teaches on (post)colonialism, race, knowledge production, theory and history of IR, and ideologies and social movements in the Middle East. She co-edited the International Affairs centenary special issue on "Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice" (2022) with Jenna Marshall.

Recent Posts

On reckoning and repair in the international: revisiting imperialism and race in IR

On reckoning and repair in the international: revisiting imperialism and race in IR

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 5 April, 2024 | , , , ,

THe short-term contributions of the Special Issue have been worthwhile, but there remains a continued concern and challenge that with greater attention paid to race and imperialism in IR, these issues will become co-opted into the game of academic production, sanitised as intellectual curiosities, instead of being treated as matters of life and death that need to be opposed practically and not just on paper.

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On reckoning and repair in the international: revisiting imperialism and race in IR

Introduction to the Symposium on “Race and Imperialism in International Relations”

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 3 April, 2024 | , , , ,

The International Affairs Centenary Special Issue on “Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice” was published two years ago in the aftermath of the global Black Lives Matter movement; it marked an atypical period of introspection by many scholars, departments, and journals of International Relations on the general paucity of attention given to matters of race and imperialism in IR research and teaching.

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