How to Study Racism (Not Only) in Development Cooperation

Abstract

V prvním letošním čísle Mezinárodních vztahů vyšel článek Tomáše Profanta
s názvem Rasizmus v rozvoji a rozvojové spolupráci. Publikování textu
spustilo živou diskusi, kterou se redakce Mezinárodních vztahů rozhodla
podpořit oslovením některých dalších autorů a autorek a transformovat do
podoby diskusního fóra. Jednotlivé příspěvky, které na rozdíl od Profantova
článku neprocházely plnohodnotným recenzním řízením, se tak vyrovnávají
s argumenty a metodologickými postupy původního textu, rozvíjejí jej a
lokalizují do místních podmínek, či poukazují na empirické příklady, které jej
potvrzují. Celé fórum uzavírá odpověď Tomáše Profanta na jednotlivé
vznesené připomínky. Byť fórum reaguje na konkrétní článek, doufáme, že
by i tato diskuse mohla přispět k širší reflexi práce s konceptem rasismu a
její implikace pro politickou praxi. Věříme, že právě v tomto je tato debata
v současném akademickém i politickém kontextu velmi aktuální.

Author Biography

Ondřej Slačálek

Ondřej Slačálek (1982) is an assistant professor at the Department of
Political Science, the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. He has
published articles on social movements, radical history, national identities
and theories of international relations in, e.g., Patterns of Prejudice,
Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, Slavic Review, Czech
Sociological Review and Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika. He is the co-author of several books (in Czech): Anarchism – Freedom Against Power (2006, with Václav
Tomek), Dialogue of Theories (2009, with Pavel Barša et al.), Critique of
Depoliticised Reason (2010, with Václav Bělohradský et al.), The Microphone Is
Our Bomb (2018, with Jan Charvát and Bob Kuřík et al.) and Prophets of
Postutopian Radicalism. Hakim Bey and Aleksander Dugin (2018, with Olga
Pavlova and Adam Borzič). He was also an editor of the street paper Nový
Prostor (2006–2007, 2008–2016) and he writes for A2larm and the Salon
literary supplement of the daily Právo.

Miša Krenčeyová

Dr. Miša Krenčeyová studied Development Studies and obtained her PhD in
African Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2019 and 2020, she was a
visiting professor at the Department of Development Studies at the
University of Vienna. In her research and teaching, she focuses on power
analysis, empowerment, intersectionality, the politics of diversity and
gender, racism and whiteness, Critical Development Studies, Cultural
Studies, and critical pedagogy.

Tomáš Ryška

Tomáš Ryska is a social anthropologist. He is an assistant professor at the
Department of Strategy, the University of Economics Prague and at CEMS,
where he specializes in the complex interrelations between design,
ethnography, and strategy. His research focuses on humanitarianism and
international development. He has written a doctoral thesis titled
Enterprising Faith: Ethnography of Faith-Based Development in Contemporary
Thailand at the University of California - Berkeley. He firmly believes in the
tradition of ethnographic research.

Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň

Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň (1980) is a senior researcher at the Institute of
International Relations Prague and a lecturer at the University of Western
Bohemia in Pilsen. Having published predominantly on development
policies of the Central and Eastern European countries, he now works on
policy coherence for sustainable development and its implementation in
the larger governance framework of the UN Agenda 2030 with a focus on
the European Union and Africa. He is a member of the executive committee
of the European Association of Development Research and Training
Institutes (EADI).

Tomáš Profant

Tomáš Profant studied political science, International Relations and
European studies at Masaryk University in Brno and obtained his PhD at the
University of Kassel. He is a research fellow at the Institute of International
Relations in Prague and a lecturer at the Institute of European Studies and
International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences,
Comenius University in Bratislava. His research interest includes
International Political Economy, North-South relations, post-development
and postcolonial theory, and critical discourse analysis. Recently he
published the monograph New Donors on the Postcolonial Crossroads: Eastern
Europe and Western Aid.