Robbie Shilliam

Here is a list of all my publications.  Many of the final versions are behind “paywalls”. Some of the publications on the list below will have links to a  “prior-to-publication” version available to all.

Publications:

Journal articles

• Republicanism and Imperialism at the Frontier: A Post-Black Lives Matter Archaeology of International Relations, Millennium (forthcoming 2023)
• Enoch Powell: Britain’s First Neoliberal Politician”, New Political Economy, (Onlinefirst 2020)
• “The Past and Present of Abolition: Reassessing Adam Smith’s ‘Liberal Reward of Labor”, Review of International Political Economy (Onlinefirst 2020)
• “Redeeming the Ordinary Working Class”, Current Sociology 68 (2), 2020 pp.223-240
• “From Ethiopia to Bandung via Fanon“, Bandung: Journal of Global Studies 6 (2), 2019, pp.163-189
• “Besides the Rhodes Statue: Black Competency and the Imperial Academy“, History of the Human Sciences 32 (5), 2019, pp.3-27
• “Class is Race: Brexit and the Popular Will”, contribution to special forum on “Diagnosing the Present”, International Political Sociology 12 (1), 2018, pp.6-10
• “Race and Revolution at Bwa Kayiman”, Millennium 45 (3), 2017 pp.269-292 – also published in the journal’s special collection on “Revolution and Resistance in World Politics”, 2018
• “The Aims and Methods of Liberal Education: Notes from a Nineteenth Century Pan-Africanist“, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 29 (3), 2016 pp.251-267
• “Ethiopianism, Englishness, Britishness: Struggles over Imperial Belonging” Citizenship Studies 20 (2), 2016, pp. 243-259
• “Colonial Architecture or Relatable Hinterlands? Locke, Nandy, Fanon and the Bandung Spirit“, Constellations 23 (3), 2016 pp.425-435
• “‘Open the Gates Mek We Repatriate’: Caribbean Slavery and Hermeneutic Tensions Within the Constructivist Project”, International Theory 6 (2), 2014, pp.349-372
•  “Intervention and Colonial-Modernity: Decolonising the Italy/Ethiopia Conflict Through Psalms 68:31”, Review of International Studies 39 (5), 2013 pp. 1131-1147
•  “Race and Research Agendas”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 26 (1), 2013 pp.152-158
• “Forget English Freedom, Remember Atlantic Slavery: Common Law, Commercial Law, and the Significance of Slavery for Classical Political Economy”, New Political Economy 17 (5), 2012 pp.591-609
• “Civilization and the Poetics of Slavery“, Thesis Eleven, 108 (1), 2012 pp.97-116
•  “Redemption from Development: Amartya Sen, Rastafari and Promises of Freedom”, Postcolonial Studies 15 (3), 2012 pp.331-350
• “Decolonising the Grounds of Ethical Inquiry: A Dialogue Between Kant, Foucault and Glissant”, Millennium 39 (3), 2011 pp.649-665
•  “Keskidee Aroha: Translation on the Colonial Stage”, Journal of Historical Sociology 24 (1) 2011 pp.80-99
•  “The Atlantic as a Vector of Uneven and Combined Development”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 22 (1), 2009 pp.69-88
• “A Fanonian critique of Lebow’s Cultural Theory of International Relations”, Millennium 38 (1) 2009 pp.117-136
•  “The Hieroglyph of the ‘Party’: Contextualising the Agent-Structure Debate through the Works of Trotsky, C.L.R. James and Althusser”, International Relations 22 (2) 2008 pp.193-219
• “What the Haitian Revolution Might Tell Us About Development, Security and the Politics of Race“, Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 (3), 2008 pp.778-808
• “Morgenthau in Context: German Backwardness, German Intellectuals, and the Rise and Fall of a Liberal Project”, European Journal of International Relations 13 (3), 2007 pp.299-327
• “Marx’s Path to Capital: the International Dimension of an Intellectual Journey”, History of Political Thought 27 (2), 2006 pp.349-375
• “What about Marcus Garvey? Race and the Transformation of Sovereignty Debate”, Review of International Studies 32 (3), 2006 pp.379-400
• “Hegemony and the Unfashionable Problematic of Primitive Accumulation”, Millennium 33 (1), 2004 pp.59-88

Books

• Monographs:
  • Race and the Undeserving Poor: From Abolition to Brexit (London: Agenda Publishing, 2018)
  • The Black Pacific: Anticolonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015)
  • German Thought and International Relations: The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Project (London: Palgrave, 2009) 251pp.

• Edited volumes:
  • (Co-edited with Olivia Rutazibwa), The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (London: Routledge, 2018) 460pp.
  • (Co-edited with Quynh Pham), Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visons (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016) 240pp.
  • (Co-edited with Alex Anievas and Nivi Manchanda): Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (London: Routledge, 2014) 218pp.
  • International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity (London: Routledge, 2010) 268pp.
  • Co-edited (with Gurminder Bhambra): Silencing Human Rights: Critical Approaches to a Contested Project (London: Palgrave, 2008)

Book chapters

• “Race: The New Apartheid on a Global Scale“, in Thomas Weiss  & Rorden Wilkinson (eds.), Global Governance Futures (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2021), 17pp.
• “Theorising (with) Amy Ashwood Garvey”, in Patricia Owens & Katharina Rietzler (eds.), Women’s International Thought: A New History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 15pp.
• “Racism, Public Culture, and the Hidden Curriculum“, in Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu (eds.), Decolonising the University (Pluto, 2018), pp.53-63
• “Notes on Europe and Europeans for the Discerning Traveller”, in S. de Jogn, R. Icaza, O. Rutazibwa (eds.), Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning (London: Routledge, 2018), pp.198-199
• “Redemptive Political Economy”, in J. Montgomerie (ed.), Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy (London: Routledge, 2017), pp.51-57
• “The Crisis of Europe and Colonial Amnesia: Freedom Struggles in the Atlantic Biotope”, in J. Go and G. Lawson (eds.), Global Historical Sociology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp.124-141
• “Race in World Politics”, in The Globalization of World Politics 7^th edition textbook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 285-300
• “Austere Curricula: Multicultural Education and Black Students“, in Stefan Jonsson & Julia Willén (eds.), Austere Histories in European Societies: Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories (London: Routledge, 2016), pp.92-111
• “‘Ah, We Have Not Forgotten Ethiopia’: Anti-Colonial Sentiments for Spain in a Fascist Era“, in J. Narayan & G.K. Bhambra (eds.), European Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Societies (London: Routledge, 2016) pp.31-46
• “In Recognition of the Abyssinian General”, in P. Hayden & K. Schick (eds.), Recognition and the International (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016) pp.121-137
• “Decolonizing the Manifesto: Communism and the Slave Analogy”, in T. Carver & J. Farr (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp.195-213
• “Race and Development” in H. Weber (ed.), The Politics of Development: A Survey (Abingdon: Routledge), 2014, pp.31-48
• “Developmentalism, Human Security, Indigenous Rights”, in M.K. Pasha (ed.), Globalization, Difference and Human Security (London: Routledge, 2013), pp.91-102
• “Black Redemption, Not (White) Abolition”, in  D.L. Blaney & A.B. Tickner (eds.), Claiming the International – Worlding Beyond the West (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 141-158
• “Who will Provide the West with Therapy?“, in A. Beattie & K. Schick (eds.), The Vulnerable Subject: Beyond Rationalism in International Relations (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp.133-148
• “The Spirit of Exchange”, in S. Seth (ed.), Postcolonialism and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2013), pp.166-182
• “The Polynesian Panthers and The Black Power: Surviving Racism and Colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand”, in Nico Slate and Joe Trotter (eds.), Black Power Beyond Borders (New York: Palgrave, 2012), pp.107-126
• “The Drama Viewed from Elsewhere”, in Toni Erskine & Richard Ned Lebow (eds), Tragedy and International Relations (London: Palgrave, 2012), pp.172-184
• “Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands Unto God: Garveyism, Rastafari and Antiquity”, in D. Orrells, G. Bhambra and T. Roynon (eds.), African Athena: New Agendas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) pp.106-121
• “Modernity and Modernization”, in Robert A. Denemark  (ed.), The International Studies Encyclopedia Vol. VIII (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 5214-5232
• “The perilous but unavoidable intellectual terrain of the “Non-West”” in R. Shilliam (ed.), International Relations and Non-Western Thought (Routledge, 2010), pp.12-26
• (co-written with Martin Munro 50/50%), “Alternative sources of cosmopolitanism: Nationalism, universalism and Créolité in Francophone Caribbean thought” in R. Shilliam (ed.), International Relations and Non-Western Thought (Routledge, 2010), pp. 159-177
• “Jacobinism: the Ghost in the Gramscian Machine of Counter-Hegemony”, for Alison Ayers (ed.), Neo-Gramscians, Historical Materialism and International Relations (Palgrave, 2008) pp.189-208
• “The ‘Other’ in Classical Political Theory: Re-Contextualising the Cosmopolitan/Communitarian Debate” in B. Jahn (ed.), Classical Theory in International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) pp.207-232

Guest editor for special issues

• (Co-edited with Lisa Tilley), “Raced Markets”, New Political Economy 23 (5), 2018
• (Co-edited with G.K. Bhambra & D. Orrells), “Contesting Imperial Epistemologies”, special issue of Journal of Historical Sociology 26 (3), 2014
•  (Co-edited with D. Capie, A. Lacey and J. True), “OCIS IV Special Issue”, of Global Change, Peace and Security 23 (1), 2011
• (Co-edited with George Lawson) “Sociology and International Relations: Legacies and Prospects” in Cambridge Review of International Affairs 23 (1), 2010
• (Co-edited with George Lawson) “Beyond Hypocrisy: Debating the Fact and Value of Sovereignty in Contemporary World Politics” in International Politics 46 (6), 2009

Other publications: 

• Editor of special forum: “Race and Racism in International Relations: Retrieving a Scholarly Inheritance“, International Politics Reviews (forthcoming, 2020)
• Co-written with Jeannette Ehlers, “Entry on Alanna Lockward” for Global Social Theory https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/lockward-alanna/ (2019)
• Afterword to D. Bully, J. Edkins & N. El-Nany (eds.), After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (London: Pluto Press, 2019), pp.195-197
• “What Max Weber Teaches Us About the Ramsay Centre’s Debate”, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Blog, December 2018, https://acrawsa.org.au/2018/12/21/2045/
• “Racism, Identity Politics and the Hidden Curriculum”, Pluto Press Blogs, 2018 https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/racism-identity-politics-decolonise-university/
• “Viewpoint: Populism and the Spectre of Powell”, Discover Society December 2018 https://discoversociety.org/2018/12/04/viewpoint-populism-and-the-spectre-of-enoch-powell/
• “Indebtedness and the Curation of a Black Archive: Comments on David Goldberg’s Conversation with Achille Mbembe“, Theory, Culture & Society, July 2018
• Forward to M. Iniguez de Heredia & Z. Wai (eds.), Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (London: Palgrave, 2018)
• “Africa in Oceania: Thinking Besides the Subaltern“, Theory, Culture & Society, Nov 2015
• “Black Academia: The Doors Have Been Opened but the Architecture Remains the Same”, in Claire Alexander and Jason Arday (eds.), Aiming Higher: Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy (Runnymede Perspectives, 2015)
• (with Rastafari Regal Livity CiC)) “When Britain Loved RasTafari”, Discover Society June 2014
• “Decolonial AestheSis: Be.Bop 2012 Black Europe Body Politics“, Social Text/Periscope (special online issue, 2013)