Foreign Policy Futures

Blackwell, James M.; Ballangarry, Julie

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“…60 Time will only tell if his work does engage in such meaningful dialogue with Indigenous people and our interests which also respects our unique sovereignty and worldviews across all of our nations, although we are extremely hopeful it will. 61 Even if decolonising movements are in early stages in terms of foreign policy practice, and their full effect and impact decades away, we are beginning to see some small change in decolonising aspects of Australian foreign policy practice. This is the real-world extension of our IR discipline.…”

Section: Indigeneity In Irmentioning

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Decolonising Australia's International Relations? A Critical Introduction

Davis,

Blackwell

2023

Aus J of Politics History

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Australia's international relations (IR) discipline has a deep colonial history, but has never been through a conscious process of decolonisation. Although discussions of decolonising IR have taken place elsewhere, the discussion in Australia is in its infancy. This collection examines the possibilities for decolonising Australia's IR in the present moment, looking at its teaching practice, its research, its styles of analysis, and its relationship with Australian foreign policy. We consider what is particular to Australia's settler colonial context, what is achievable, and what is not. The collection also seeks to develop a new style of anti‐colonial foreign policy analysis in Australia, looking at the relationship between colonisation, settlement, and foreign policy. In this introduction, we first look over debates on decolonisation elsewhere in the field. We then examine the historical background of Australia's IR discipline, and look at Australian Indigenous diplomacy, to consider what is specific to Australia's context. We conclude by looking over the contributions of the papers in this collection, and consider what a decolonised Australian IR might look like. Ultimately, we argue that any process of decolonisation will be extremely difficult, and that decolonisation in Australian IR should be perceived as an ongoing struggle, rather than an endpoint in itself.

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Section: Indigeneity In Irmentioning

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Decolonising Australia's International Relations? A Critical Introduction

Davis,

Blackwell

2023

Aus J of Politics History

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Interrogating whiteness in International Relations: Critical Examinations of Race and Racialised Power

Blackwell,

Carney,

Giri

et al. 2024

Int Polit

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The dynamics of knowledge production in the discipline of international relations (IR) frequently reproduce problematic and outdated idea(l)s about what counts as ‘proper’ scholarship, with positivist research setting the standard for legitimacy. This essay challenges the racialised hierarchies that reproduce unreflective endorsement of these (white, Western) ‘standards’ of knowledge production. Our review begins with an elaboration of epistemic whiteness as the foundation for a critical examination of race and racialised power in the discipline. We provide a timely and necessary review of the dynamics of racialised power in IR to expand the parameters of debates about race, racism, and coloniality. We introduce the concepts of Indigeneity and intersectionality as tools we can use to destabilise whiteness in the discipline. We conclude our discussion by showing how these two concepts can enable potentially transformative re-imaginings of IR, as we hope to foster new and plural ways of thinking world politics otherwise.

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Relational Wiradyuri approaches to diplomacy: from Country, on Country, for a nation ?

Blackwell

2023

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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Foreign Policy Futures

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Decolonising Australia's International Relations? A Critical Introduction

Decolonising Australia's International Relations? A Critical Introduction

Interrogating whiteness in International Relations: Critical Examinations of Race and Racialised Power

Relational Wiradyuri approaches to diplomacy: from Country, on Country, for a nation ?

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