Marta Iñiguez de Heredia and Zubairu Wai, Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure
The discipline of International Relations (IR) is currently witnessing a sustained critique geared
towards exposing the parochial origins of its epistemic orientation, namely Eurocentrism. As a system
of knowledge production, Eurocentrism establishes Europe as the key referential figure in world
history, from which all non-Western experiences and events are derived and subsequently hierarchized
in their temporal and political significance.
Marta Iñiguez de Heredia and Zubairu Wai, Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure
The discipline of International Relations (IR) is currently witnessing a sustained critique geared
towards exposing the parochial origins of its epistemic orientation, namely Eurocentrism. As a system
of knowledge production, Eurocentrism establishes Europe as the key referential figure in world
history, from which all non-Western experiences and events are derived and subsequently hierarchized
in their temporal and political significance.
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- Marta Iñiguez de HEREDIA and Zubairu WAI , Recentering Africa in International Relations:
Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018