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Teaching Africa within IR carries a responsibility to engage students with the power relations that dominate Africa's global position and 'western' knowledge of the continent. The key contribution of this paper is to highlight the significance of difference and power relations within the classroom not only when these are manifested in the identities present within the classroom, but also just as importantly when they are not. Disrupting students’ assumptions such as, that it is the western actors they align themselves with who will 'solve' Africa, may involve disempowering them in order to establish a different starting point.
Author(s): Routley L
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Politics
Year: 2016
Volume: 36
Issue: 4
Pages: 482-494
Print publication date: 01/11/2016
Online publication date: 03/05/2016
Acceptance date: 30/10/2015
Date deposited: 17/12/2015
ISSN (print): 0263-3957
ISSN (electronic): 1467-9256
Publisher: Wiley
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263395715618414
DOI: 10.1177/0263395715618414
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