Archives Are Part of International Knowledge, Not Merely Happenstance: In Conversation with Siba Grovogui

In Siba Grovogui begins with a lyrical form of subversion as he speaks to those in International Relations whom he finds participating in moral justifications of a politics of death. Grovogui's assemblage of the colonial archive points to its operation at multiple registers. It is a site of con...

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Published in:Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Africa, and the Middle East, 2016, Vol.36 (1), p.204-212
Main Author: Agathangelou, Anna M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Studies
Asian Studies
Middle East Studies
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Summary:In Siba Grovogui begins with a lyrical form of subversion as he speaks to those in International Relations whom he finds participating in moral justifications of a politics of death. Grovogui's assemblage of the colonial archive points to its operation at multiple registers. It is a site of contested possibility and regenerative change and it belongs to the whole world for a world otherwise. As a response to Grovogui's book, this essay argues that open-ended, multiple engagements can disrupt strategies of bifurcation problematizing asymmetrical zonings and scale making, thereby redefining the nature and terms of science (itself a naturalized modern knowledge formation) without fantasizing a greater sense of knowing or transcendence from ontological specificities and multiplicities.
ISSN:1089-201X
1548-226X
DOI:10.1215/1089201x-3482243