Introduction

This chapter lays out how this book draws on the scholarship of postcolonial, feminist and decolonising critics and insists that we, as students of International Relations (IR), learn from the wealth of knowledge already available when addressing the Eurocentric limitations of our/their concepts and theories. The chapter also outlines the scholarly context which the so-called globalising turn in IR is responding to, and locates itself in the broader effort to address Eurocentrism in the study of world politics. The chapter ends by laying out the structure of the book.