Robbie Shilliam’s research while affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and other places

... Based on my imagined and in-person conversations with Aida A. Hozić. One conversation with her was published inEdkins et al (2021). ...

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White middle-class heterosexual cisgender women’s stories in International Relations: anonymity, whitewashing, and our cleaning labor

... 4 For parallel critique on this point, see Alejandro 2018Alejandro , 2021. See also the rest of the 2021 International Politics Reviews forum on 'International Relations as a geoculturally pluralist field' edited by De Koeijer and Shilliam 2021. was analysing sociologically. But in the intervening years, his phrasing came to be read geo-epistemologically. ...

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The United Nations of IR: power, knowledge, and empire in Global IR debates

... In others, it challenged the parameters of that history. For example, the work of Black internationalist women developed novel gendered and racialized analyses of international politics, well before "intersectionality" became a fashionable term, in ways that fundamentally clashed with the epistemic assumptions that dominated the emergent discipline of IR in the mid-twentieth century and the canons that it constructed ( Farmer 2017 ;Blain 2018 ;Umoren 2018 ;May 2021 ;Shilliam 2021 ). The major, if perhaps unsurprising, finding of the Leverhulme Project is that there were, literally, innumerable women producing international thought on imperialism, nationalism, civilization, race, gender, geopolitics, international law, war, peace, foreign policy, international political economy, ethics, and institutions within the temporal and geographical limits of our study, and that much of this thought was well known to, and influential for, a variety of audiences at the time and/or later ( Owens et al 2022a ). ...

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Women and the History of International Thought

... My argument here builds on my earlier use of Hall (Cooper, 2021, pp. 19-28) to make a further contribution to the work that others have undertaken in this direction (on which see Lehtonen, 2016;Rogers, 2020;Shilliam, 2021). In my book, Authoritarian Contagion (Cooper, 2021, see also Cooper, 2023), I drew on Hall to analyse how contemporary far right discourses often appear to eschew the classical neoliberal idea that a moral state is one that disavowals its obligations towards citizens (e.g., through public services or social security) on the grounds of incentivising individual work and competition. ...

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Authoritarian protectionism and the post-neoliberal transition: learning from Stuart Hall's method of articulation

... These findings also contribute to scholarship on international institutions more generally. Research shows that public perceptions of IO legitimacy are shaped by 5. Anievas, Manchanda, and Shilliam 2014;Freeman, Kim, and Lake 2022;Shilliam 2020;Zvobgo and Loken 2020. 6. Búzás 2021, 459. 7. Búzás 2013Búzás and Meier 2023;Freeman 2023;Han and Marwecki 2023;Hemmer andKatzenstein 2002. ...

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Race, Representation, and the Legitimacy of International Organizations

... In political science and International Relations (IR), what little work there is on slavery tends to concentrate on abolitionism (e.g., Kaufmann and Pape 1999;Crawford 2002;Klotz 2002;Lowenheim 2003;Keene 2007;May 2021;Shilliam 2021). In this restricted focus, the field inadvertently reproduces misleading racial stereotypes where slaves have only been African, and masters European. ...

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Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders

... welfare payments) rather than to "the working class," per se. Still, our understanding of the term "working class" bears spelling out, perhaps especially in post-Brexit Britain, where increasing political rhetoric around an "ordinary working class" constructs a whiteracialized constituency as a primary object of government social justice (Shilliam 2020). This echoes the longer historical formation of the "English working class" in opposition to "racialized outsiders" and through alliances with imperial elites (Virdee 2014). ...

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Everyday Authoritarianism: Class and Coercion on Housing Estates in Neoliberal Britain

... Fanon writes this Black Skin White Masks in a moment when the Négritude movement, a pan-African mission largely within the Francophone speaking world sought to rid black people of the shackles of colonialism and demonstrate the immense worth and value of black culture and history (Fanon, 1952a). Fanon was deeply influenced and motivated by those who saw overcoming the dehumanizing effects of racism as critical to anticolonial success such as his mentors Aimé and Suzanne Césaire (Shilliam, 2019). Fanon is also striking out in this work against the trend in 4 Fanon, in articulating a dialectic between colonizer and colonized as largely a black/white binary coproduced through violence and subjugation he is reticent to generalize this colonial subject formation beyond the spaces of actual European colonies. ...

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Who can lead the revolution?: Re-thinking anticolonial revolutionary consciousness through Frantz Fanon and Pierre Bourdieu

... There is a distinctive politics of journal content which has in recent years emerged in debates concerning inter alia embedded gender biases in review processes (Grossman, 2020;Teele and Thelen, 2017), systemic inequalities in publishing (Schipper et al., 2021) which affect careers (see Hanretty, 2021), the need to 'decolonise' curricula (Begum and Saini, 2019;Moosavi, 2020;Sen, 2023), the 'silencing' of contrarian positions (Norris, 2023) and 'black competency and the imperial academy' (Shilliam, 2019). Members of the PSA Publications Committee who assessed and approved the idea to establish a second core journal in the mid-1990s could not have imagined that two decades later political science and international relations would be 'facing an epistemological crisis about its knowledge production and how different kinds of knowledge produced outside and against the white male Eurocentric gaze are largely delegitimised and excluded within the discipline' (Emejulu, 2019: 202). ...

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The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR

... Loveland, 1998 ), or international legal lenses (e.g., Hare and Weinstein 2011 , 62-79). In contrast, the analysis below reveals both how free speech functions across states as colonization and how free speech has been co-constituted with statehood in practice since the European Enlightenment-both of which are rendered invisible through the domestic, comparative, interstate, and legal frameworks that dominate free speech scholarship (for an exploration of the coloniality of comparative analysis, see: Shilliam in Walker et al. 2018 ). ...

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The Settler Coloniality of Free Speech