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My decoloniality is not your decoloniality: the new multiverse – an opinion piece (2023)
Journal Article
Chan, S. My decoloniality is not your decoloniality: the new multiverse – an opinion piece. Social Dynamics, 49(2), 369-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2240151

The term has become a mantra, but “decoloniality” has almost no precise meaning and is used as an ideological trope. It points in a “progressive” sense towards a status quo ante, almost an arcadia descended from an anti-slavery Victorian regret that... Read More about My decoloniality is not your decoloniality: the new multiverse – an opinion piece.

The Lived International: A Life in International Relations (2022)
Book
Chan, S. (2022). The Lived International: A Life in International Relations. Rowman and Littlefield

The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan’s personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from... Read More about The Lived International: A Life in International Relations.

Parliamentary Committees and Good Governance in Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Zimbabwe (2022)
Thesis
Kori, A. Parliamentary Committees and Good Governance in Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Zimbabwe. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Parliamentary reforms gradually happening since the last decade in former British colonies or Commonwealth countries following or adapting the Westminster governance model have led to the establishment of Parliamentary Committees (PCs). Little known... Read More about Parliamentary Committees and Good Governance in Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Zimbabwe.

African Political Thought: An Intellectual History of the Quest for Freedom (2021)
Book
Chan, S. (2021). African Political Thought: An Intellectual History of the Quest for Freedom. Hurst and Co

African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's seminal The Wretched of the Earth, wrote of the 'native' with his coiled muscles about to explode into rebellion. The... Read More about African Political Thought: An Intellectual History of the Quest for Freedom.

Global China, African Agency and the Prism of Soft Power: Media Interaction and Newsroom Politics Between China and Africa (2021)
Thesis
Li, H. Global China, African Agency and the Prism of Soft Power: Media Interaction and Newsroom Politics Between China and Africa. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Using comprehensive ethnographic rigor, large number of interviews and data with theoretical sophistication, the thesis discuss the historical and contemporary media interactions between China and Africa. Drawing on years of fieldwork in China, Ethio... Read More about Global China, African Agency and the Prism of Soft Power: Media Interaction and Newsroom Politics Between China and Africa.

Free and Fair? : Observation of Selected African Elections (2019)
Journal Article
Chan, S. (2019). Free and Fair? : Observation of Selected African Elections. Journal of African elections, 18(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.20940/JAE/2019/v18i1a1

The first large-scale election observation was of Zimbabwe’s 1980 independence elections. Since then, election observation has become a regular worldwide feature and many international organisations, official agencies, and non-governmental organisati... Read More about Free and Fair? : Observation of Selected African Elections.

The Problematic Non-Western Cosmopolitanism in Africa Today: Grappling With a Modernity outside History (2018)
Journal Article
Chan, S. (2018). The Problematic Non-Western Cosmopolitanism in Africa Today: Grappling With a Modernity outside History. Human affairs (Tlačené vydanie), 28(4), 351-366. https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2018-0029

The question, ‘can Africa deal with a postcoloniality without reference to the colonising metropole?’ neglects that Africa must deal with many powers that were not colonisers. Dealing with China requires a relationship outside the period of formal co... Read More about The Problematic Non-Western Cosmopolitanism in Africa Today: Grappling With a Modernity outside History.

No More “Local” Insurrection or Terrorism: The Dark Side of the Cobweb (2018)
Journal Article
Chan, S. No More “Local” Insurrection or Terrorism: The Dark Side of the Cobweb. Global Society, 32(2), 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2018.1433131

World Society was the leitmotif of John Groom. It was a pluralist vision of International Relations set against Realism and state hegemonies. In this, it sought to establish an enhanced pluralism, citizen organisation and action, as a norm. It was a... Read More about No More “Local” Insurrection or Terrorism: The Dark Side of the Cobweb.