Violence, the Subject, and the Beyond: Achille Mbembe and Violence in International Relations Theory

• Published in: The Australian journal of politics and history Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 481 - 502
• Main Author: Ó Guaire, Keagan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brisbane Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2023
• Subjects: Colonialism; Decolonization; International relations; Slavery; Violence

A double‐barrelled question underpins this special edition: can International Relations (IR) be decolonised? If so, how? I argue that IR's insistence on more‐or‐less concretised subjects, which engage in dialectical relations of struggle, renders the discipline (and the practice it engenders) c...