BOOK REVIEW: Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure

Abstract

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.

Keywords

International Relations, Africa, Lack, Peripherality, Failure

Citation

Paul Witzenhausen, Book Review: “Marta Iñiguez de Heredia and Zubairu Wai, Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018”, International Relations, Vol. 18, No. 70, 2021, pp. 137-138.

Affiliations

• Paul WITZENHAUSEN, PhD Candidate, University of Erfurt, Faculty of State Sciences