Vol. 38, N° 3, Sep/Dec, 2016

About the authors

Ángela Iranzo Dosdad holds a Ph.D in International Relations, Universidad Autonóma de Madrid (UAM). She has been Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Director of the Centre of International Studies, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), 2011–2016. She was visiting research student at the London School of Economics and Po- litical Science (UK) and the Boğaziçi University (Turkey). Her research interests include: International Relations Theory, Religion and Politics, Ethics in International Politics, Hu- man Rights, Human Trafficking, Forced Migrations and Conflict Resolution. Recent pub- lications: ‘Las víctimas del afuera. Espacialidad y transición política en Colombia’ (forth- coming), ‘Crisis migratorias y concepciones políticas del movimiento humano’ (2016), and ‘Religiones, post-secularidad y democracia en América Latina: reconfiguraciones del discurso y la acción política’ (with Carlos A Manrique, 2015).

Anna M. Agathangelou is an associate professor in Political Science at York University, Toronto and former fellow of the Program of Science, Technology and Society, J.F. Ken- nedy School of Government, Harvard. She is co-editor of Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De) Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives (Rout- ledge, 2016) (with Kyle D. Killian), co-editor of Arab Revolutions and World Transforma- tions with Nevzat Soguk (Routledge 2013), the co-author of Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (with L.H.M. Ling) (Routledge 2009), the author of Glob- al Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation-States (Palgrave 2004).

Aparna Devare is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad, India. She is the author of History and the Making of a Modern Hindu Self (Routledge 2011). The book examines visions of three Indian thinkers, Ranade, Phule and Savarkar, and their negotiation with history and colonial modernity. She has also published articles in journals such as International Political Sociology and Postcolonial Studies. She teaches and researches in post-colonial studies, international relations theory and global politics, religion and politics, and Indian political thought. Her current research uses non-western political thinkers and concepts to interrogate dominant frameworks in international rela- tions.

Hitomi Koyama is a postdoctoral research fellow of non-western international relations theory at the Institute for Social Justice of the Australian Catholic University. She holds a PhD in international relations theory from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, where she completed a dissertation on international politics of history with a regional focus on East Asia. Her work spans comparative political theory, critical international relations theory, (post)colonialism, and the history of imperialism. At the moment she is interested in how morality is bound to a progressive image of time, and how this implicates the very act of writing about and remembering the past.

João Nackle Urt is Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), Dourados, Brazil, and holds a PhD degree in international relations from the University of Brasília (UnB). He was previously a professor at the Insikiran Institute for Indigenous Education at the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR), Boa Vista, Brazil, where he first engaged in research with Indigenous Peoples. He is currently interested in contemporary forms of colonialism and struggles for decolonisation, the many branches of post-colonial/decolonial thought and their impacts on international relations, Indigenous Peoples as actors in global politics, and the ethics of research involving Indigenous communities.

Khadija El Alaoui is currently Assistant Professor at Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia. She previously served as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal. She also served as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace and Justice Studies in the American Culture Program at Vassar College, NY, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She received her MA in American Studies and PhD from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Her published articles deal with representational practices in Hollywood and Arab cinema, the mutations of colonialism, and poetry and politics in the recent Arab uprisings.

Manu Samnotra is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He received his BA from Ithaca College, his MA from the New School for Social Research, and his PhD from the University of Florida. His research connects the political thought of Hannah Arendt with questions of post-colonial identity and politics. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines how Arendt’s political theory might help us recover the politically salubrious dimensions of shame. He is also concurrently conducting research that would bring continental philosophy and political theory into closer dialogue with the political thought of M K Gandhi and B R Ambedkar.

Mvuselelo Ngcoya teaches agrarian studies in the School of Built Environment and De- velopment Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His main area of research revolves around food production, particularly the social life and political economy of indigenous plants. His collaboration with Narendran Kumarakulasingam on this topic has yielded a paper in the Journal of Agrarian Change (2016) and a book chapter in Knowledge Production in and about Africa (edited by Hana Horáková, LIT Verlag 2016). He also does work on decolonial conceptions of the international in International Relations. His recent paper on this topic, Ubuntu Cosmopolitanism, was published in International Political Sociology in 2015.

Narendran Kumarakulasingam is an honorary research fellow at the School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, and a visiting scholar with the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto. He is currently working on a manuscript exploring how distinctions between savage and civilised violence are drawn in international politics. Most recently, he has published in the Journal of Narrative Politics and Journal of Agrarian Change (co-authored with Mvuselelo Ngcoya), and has a forthcoming chapter in Quỳnh N. Phạm and Robbie Shilliam (eds) Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions (Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2017). His research interests include critical international relations, postcolonial theory, indigenous food and South Asian politics.

Shiera S. el-Malik is an associate professor in the Department of International Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, USA. She teaches and writes on themes of coloniality, politics, and theory. Her research is guided by an interest in the intersection of politics of knowledge and lived experience. Her work has been published in the Review of Inter- national Studies, African Identities, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Irish Studies of International Affairs, Critical Studies on Security, African and Black Diaspora amongst other journals and edited volumes. Her co-edited (with Isaac Kamola) volume Politics of African Anticolonial Archive is forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

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