IV. International Relations of a Tribe Called Red
International Relations of a Tribe Called Red
This article provides a new way to think about the topics presented in The Pedagogy of Decolonial Development Futures: Building on Decolonizing Past and Present in Development Studies Teaching Praxis by providing a resource for scholars and students of international relations and development studies to examine these topics through the arts and music of racialized Muslims. This is a useful and powerful way to engage with your students about this topic and encourage them to reflect on firsthand experiences expressed through the arts.
The article notes:
“Building on the international nature of relations, the album track “R.E.D.” includes the voices and bodies of racialized Muslims, featuring Yasiin Bey and Yassin “Narcy” Alsalam. In this powerful song and video, we see further globalization of ATCR’s politics, where the drum now integrates politically significant “others” engaged in the practice of Islam. During this track’s recording, the federal Canadianelection was being fought on promises of nation-to-nation relationships, resource extraction, threats of niqab bans, fear-mongering concerning Syrian refugees, and a proposed hotline to report “barbaric cultural practices.” To extend solidarity to racialized Muslims and articulate a vision for renewed national construction built on respect for land and ceremony is a powerful enactment of a decolonial option.”
https://www.e-ir.info/2017/07/25/international-relations-of-a-tribe-called-red/