COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics: Border Thinking and Vulnerability as a Knowing Otherwise
(pg. 26-40)

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Sundas Umair

FA20-BAF- 063

Date:17/04/2021
INTRODUCTION:
• This report brings attention to IR by considering coloniality and modernity.
• It focuses on border thinking and vulnerability as a knowing fact.
• It discusses Borderlands and Vulnerability in International Relations.
• It tries to analyze the self-in-between border subjectivities and embodied dualities.
• It explains the epistemic privileges and coalitions.
• It discusses the story of Three vignettes in the context of social development and some of its notes.
• It narrates the event of Eurocaravana 43- the thinking of vulnerability of a sick body.
• At the end, answers some major questions that arose from the writer’s experience and voyages.
 BORDERLANDS AND VULNERABILITY IN
INTERNATIONAL REALTIONS

• Borderland ..a place where people do not want to be ruled/rolled over.

• The similarity of conflict and borderlands.

• A result of linear global thinking.

• Permitting to full consideration of epistemic commitment of border thinking as a confined awareness.

 THE SELF-IN-BETWEEN BORDER SUBJECTIVENESS AND
EMBODIED DUALITIES

• History of oppression and History of resistance offered by Borderlands.

• Focus on subjectivities: Chicanos/ Mexicanos.

• Cross-cultures are open minded to vagueness.

• Border epistemology as a way of thinking for IR and GP.

VULNERABILITY, (EPISTEMIC) PRIVILEGES AND
COALITIONS

• Self-in-between a plural self is captive of more than one collectivity.

• Our theoretical universe made up of self-in-between.

• Assumptions of objectivity to generate right science.

• Description of States.

• Centralization of resistance ….

• Coalitions and Alliances as the necessary step.

THREE VIGNETTES IN THE CARTOGRAPHY OF
CONTEMPORARY VIOLENCE IN MEXICO

• Group of women giving a helping hand to immigrants.

• Form of motherly nurturing

• Example of morals of care.

• Knowing subject addressed in the self-attributed advantages.

• Social development of our bodies…

 FIELDWORK DIARY NOTES ON THE GOING
GLOCAL PROGRAM

• Visit to the Hermanos del Camino shelter.

• Founded in 2007.

• Provision of temporary humanitarian help.

• Developing phase of self out of a persistent knowledge of vulnerability.

• World- a place of various expressions of importance…

 THREE VIGNETTES: SOME COMMON
QUESTIONS

• What are the elements of knowing?

• How is border thinking an embodied consciousness Centre for critical re-thinking of how is our
perception of the international and the global?
THANK YOU
 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

Decolonising the Anthropocene: The Mytho-Politics of Human Mastery

(page 46-58)

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Muhammad Sohaib

FA20-BAF-052

Date:17/04/2021
 Humans
• Fluid Beings – biosocial

• Base of relations corrupted by selfish ecology

• Scientist coming up with new theories about human nature

 Anthropocene
• Antonio Stoppani – 1873

• Holocene: current geological era – 11,700 years

• New geological era: Anthropocene

• Major focus: environment

• Criticized

• Decoloniality
 Myth
• Assumed as false

• Roland Barthes – Myth does not oppose ideology – gives clarity

• Decolonial theorists – way of knowing and being in the world

• Gloria Anzaldúa – spiritual language – transforms the world

 Human Mastery
• Anthropocentric concept: being above non-human world

• Greek mythology – pre and post Socratic Greece

• Cartesian dualism – promoted power of reason

• Myths: observations of individuals

• Judeo-Christian tradition: life given to rule God’s creation

 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

Colonial Animality: Constituting Canadian Settler
Colonialism through the Human-Animal Relationship
(pg. 63-78)

Assignment 2

BAF 2 B

Student: Muhammad Moiz

FA20-BAF-045 Date:17/04/2021
 Introduction to Colonial Animality

Purpose of the study

Analyze relation between settler colonialism and animality.

History of European colonizers and indigenous people.

View-point and treatment of Europeans towards the indigenous people of the time.
 Non-Human Animals and Aboriginal Rights in Canadian

Jurisprudence / The Colonial Zoo polis

The laws and rights given to indigenous people.

loopholes in the rights given to them.

Theory of Zoo polis

 The Colonial Zoo polis (cont.)

Underlying biases of the theory of Colonial Zoo polis.

Defining the anthropocentric/ Eurocentric views.

Examples of the Anthropocentric-Eurocentric concepts.

Thank you for listening!

Any Questions?
 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics: Border Thinking and Vulnerability as a Knowing Otherwise
(pg. 79-96)

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Muhammad Asim

FA20-BAF- 042

Date:17/04/2021
Visit to naga eboko
• Transformative conversation
• Figurative conversation on-going debates high political epistemologies
and knowledge making within border-ridden fossil fuel capitalism
• eco-friendly corporations that operate on behalf of women,
Indigenous, and 'local' people.
Post/Decolonial Geography

• the Language of the Mouth

• provocative monologue was a rencontre versus the language of
inaction
Language and experiences

• Nadine and those living withal the pipeline are often de-legitimized
and dismissed by increasingly powerful actors (government officials
and corporate entitles) as non-factual or as unsubstantiated
• transferral to post-/decolonial praxis
Decolonising
• focuses on healing, dignifying, and up-and-coming a polity rather than
a discipline.
• distinguishes decolonial thought from conventional scholarship
• refrains from claims to wool validity and challenges the positivist
notions
Decolonial orientation
• limitations of reflexive social science
• upstanding and political
• and ethically single-minded to decolonisation.
Early missionaries and charter company

• Preparation of landscape(sometimes directly, other times indirectly )

• guns and cannon
• established the missionary schools that educated people in European
languages and socialised pupils
Engineers of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline
• framework of missionary ideology
• The multinational-corporation-as-development-instrument echoes ‘
• uncanny similarities between these charter companies
Sultan Oshimin

• an artist
• infrastructure in Cameroon
• schoolrooms built by COTCO
• COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

• Introduction to International Relations

• SPRING 2021

•  

Ontologicidal Violence: Modernity/Coloniality and the Muslim Subject in International Law PIERRE-

ALEXANDRE CARDINAL (page 100-110)

•

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Faaiz Ahmed

• FA20-BAF-062
• Date:17/04/2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS

•The Exclusive Club of States

•Westphalia and Secularism

• Capitulations in Service of Empire

• Conclusion
The Exclusive Club of States

• So-called civilized states

• European Legal Imperialism.
• Modern Colonialism
• Benefit the Creators
Westphalia and Secularism
• Secular States
• Religious Tolerence
• Religion an obstacle in the way of modern civilization.
• Separating states from religion
• Organized society under man.
Capitulations in Service of Empire
• Persia’s defeat to Russia
• Treaty of Peace and Commerce of Turkmanchay.
• Capitulations in Europe
• Mixed Courts
• Semi Colonialism
Conclusion
• International law is premised on a hierarchical organizing of cultures based on the
centrality of the experience of Europe
 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

multiculturalism at the Crossroads: learning beyond the
west
(pg. 116-129)

Sadaf shaikh
Multiculturalism at the crossroads

• Multiculturalism is the co-existence of diverse cultures including

different racial , religious or cultural groups
• How west and European settlers resulted in multiculturalism
• Today , multiculturalism policies exit in nearly every western state .
While Canada continues to lead the pack in terms of greater public
recognition, tolerance, and support for religious and cultural diversity
Rejection of Past: Canadian multiculturalism

• Canada tries to separate itself form tyranny by making claims against

the past.
• It strives to free modern (European) subjects from the imperialist and
colonialist sins of their forefather
• between assimilation and tolerance; genocide and inclusion; tyranny
and democracy; ignorance and reason.
Reflections of past: Azerbaijani multiculturalism

• Azerbaijan is termed as the bridge between west and Asia in terms

of promoting multiculturalism
• It supports the need of multilingual society where is a second
language other than Azerbaijani
• It enables first time history woman to vote and other minorities
Thank you
 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

DE-Europeanising Europeanborders : EU-Morocco Negotiations On Migrations And The Decentering Agenda in

EU-Studies (page 134-145)

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Munazza
FA20-BAF- 056

Date:17/04/2021
Decentering the EU’s External Migration Policy: EU Studies Meets Postcolonial
Approaches: -

• • Since the 1990s, EU studies has been subjected that aim to

deconstruct the mythologies of European integration, a linear
progress towards federalism, or an ‘ever-closer union.
 From Eurocentric Bias to Questioning Asymmetry in EU Migration
Policies

• Migration is a central policy for tackling Eurocentrism in EU studies.

• It is not surprising then that the literature on European external migration policy
is particularly representative of Eurocentric tendencies within EU studies.

• This bias is the consequence of most studies concentrating on official texts

produced by European institutions, which typically produce more documentation
than institutions from third countries.
 Possible Strategies For Decentering the Study of EU-Migration Policies

• Migration of power

• IR requires trying to displace ‘the rationalist, masculinist

subjectivity/psyche attributed implicitly to states’ relations with each
other, with one that is more complex, situated, affective and
particular.
What We Can Learn from Decentering the Study of the EU’s External policy

• -EU-Morocco negotiations on migration are particularly interesting in

terms of decentering the study of EU external policy.
 Locating Agency in Asymmetric International Relations: -

• What is asymmetric international relation ?

• EU-wide readmission agreement, the Moroccan state has so far

managed to avoid signing such an agreement.

• directly, through bilateral relations

if any questions regarding to this presentation
please ask me

THANK YOU
 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

‘Ungoverned spaces?’ The Islamic State’s Challenge to (Post-) Westphalian order

(pg. 152 - 165)

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Syed Muhammad Haider Ali Zaidi

FA20-BAF- 075

Date:17/04/2021
 The post-Westphalian order
• Global democracy.

• It began after the cold war when USA & western Europe.

• It meant that other countries could intervene if there is a violation in any

country.

• The elite powers of the world use this concept and interfere in other states
matter in their best interest.
 The Islamic State

• A violent none state actor founded in 1999.

• Founded to oppose the western interventions in the middle east.

 Salafi – Jihadist ideology
• The original meaning of Salafism.

• The extremist mix of Salafism.

Islamic state’s alternative to post-westphalian
order

• Establishment of a global caliphate to replace global democracy.

• Three – step strategy.

 Conclusion

• The international system in a real danger?

• How to overcome the Islamic state issue?

 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

‘What Goes on in the Coffin’: Border Knowledges in North American literature
(pg. 171-181)

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Rida Fatimah

FA20-BAF-074

Date:17/04/2021
Introduction
• A whole book could be written exploring the coffin funeral syndrome
in Canadian literature.
• Atwood explain, they occasionally come to fore in the shape of
archetypal casket with the lid off.
• Herman Melville’s novel
A Crispistemology of the Coffin
• Scott L. Morgensen convincing argues
• Brander Rasmussen argues
• Cristemology cocept by Johnson and McRuer
Bodies in Boxes and Undecipherable Marks
• Several scholars commented on Cabeza de Vaca’s hybrid self
 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

The Informal Colonialism of Egyptology: From the French Expedition to the Security State (page 182-194)

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Zain Ul Abedin

FA20-BAF-082

Date:17/04/2021
 Egyptology as a product of colonialism

What is Egyptology?
The French expedition
Impact of colonization
 Western to Informal Colonialism

Importance of Egypt's geostrategic location

Egypt’s Informal colonialism over the years
 Appropriating authority through informal
colonialism

Eternal Egypt
Impact of Egyptology in the present day
THANK YOU
 COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Introduction to International Relations

SPRING 2021

Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics

Fugitivity Against the Border: Afro-pessimism, Fugitivity, and the Border to Social Death

(pg. 203-215)

Assignment 2
BAF 2 B

Student: Abdulkareem khakwani

FA20-BAF-078

Date:17/04/2021
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Fugitive Beginnings
The Black Border of Afro-Pessimism
Contact Zones and the Border to Social Death
Fugitivity against the Border
Fugitive Conclusions
 Fugitive Beginnings

• when prison walls plot their boundaries what fugitive implies do?
• How legislation act in fugitive beginnings?
• I argue that the concept of Fugitivity is more suitable than those
concepts of borders as zones when it comes to conceptualizing
enduring Black social life in the face of anti-blackness as a constant
struggle against social death.
 The Black Border of Afro-Pessimism

• What is Afro-pessimism?
• Afro-pessimism takes as one central starting point the observation that
a specific form of racism has targeted people racialized as Black in the
United States .
• Afro-pessimism assumes that US society is fundamentally built on and
structured by this anti-blackness.
• Why Wilderson describes the relation of Blackness to the world and
Human?
Contact Zones and the Border to Social
Death
• What is contact zone?
• The contact zone with the position of Wilder son’s non-black junior
partners located at the inside margins of US civil society.
 Fugitivity against the Border
• Fugitivity as a figure of thought enables us to accept the structural
antagonism Afro-pessimism poses as well as reflect on the strategies
and expressions of Black survival.
• The Black border in Afro-pessimism being proposed the concept of
Fugitivity.
 Fugitive Conclusions

• Afro-pessimism offer between non-blackness and blackness, freedom

and UN freedom and white social life inside civil society and black
social death.
• The concept of Fugitivity together might bear the potential of
regarding both social death and the enduring sociability of Blackness.
Thank you
Any Questions?