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I joined Cardiff in March 2016 as Reader in International Relations, and was appointed Head of Department in September 2016. I was previously Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London (2007-2016); Lecturer in African Political Economy, University of Leeds (2006-7); Lecturer in International Relations, University of Aberdeen (2003-2006); and ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Sussex (2002-3). I obtained my DPhil and MA (Development Studies) from the University of Sussex and my BA (General Engineering) from the University of Cambridge. After graduating with an engineering degree I worked in Uganda for a year, for Rwenzori Highlands Tea Company.
My teaching and research focus on Africa in international relations, encompassing a substantive empirical focus on international policy, a strong concern with postcolonial debates about the politics and epistemology of scholarship, and an examination of African international political thought.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2023. Amílcar Cabral and the international: Race, colonialism, liberation. In: Williams, H. et al. eds. The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 225–244., (10.1007/978-3-031-36111-1_12)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2023. Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures. Postcolonial Studies 26, pp. 32-54. (10.1080/13688790.2023.2127656)
2022
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2022. International theory and critique in unusual places: from Lusotropicalism to anticolonial poetics. In: Layug, A. and Hobson, J. M. eds. Globalizing International Theory: The Problem with Western IR Theory and How to Overcome It. London: Routledge, pp. 219-237.
2020
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2020. Race, culture and liberation: African anticolonial thought and practice in the time of decolonisation. International History Review 42(6), pp. 1238-1256. (10.1080/07075332.2019.1695138)
2019
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2019. Time, history, politics: Anticolonial constellations. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21(5), pp. 592-614. (10.1080/1369801X.2019.1585919)
2018
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2018. Reviews of special issue. Cooperation and Conflict 53(3), pp. NP2-NP16. (10.1177/0010836718787841)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2018. African anticolonialism in international relations: Against the time of forgetting. In: Iñiguez de Heredia, M. and Wai, Z. eds. Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, pp. 187-223., (10.1007/978-3-319-67510-7_8)
2017
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2017. Comradeship, committed and conscious: the anticolonial archive speaks to our times. In: el-Malik, S. S. and Kamola, I. A. eds. Politics of African Anticolonial Archive. Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions Vol. 2. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, pp. 57-82.
2016
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2016. Definitions and categories: epistemologies of race and critique. Postcolonial Studies 19(2), pp. 173-184. (10.1080/13688790.2016.1254014)
2015
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2015. Le Malentendu International: remembering international relations with Jean-Marie Teno. Alternatives 40(2), pp. 133-155. (10.1177/0304375415590913)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2015. From rupture to revolution: race, culture and the practice of anti-colonial thought. African Identities 13(1), pp. 4-17. (10.1080/14725843.2015.1048064)
2014
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2014. Africanist scholarship, eurocentrism and the politics of knowledge. In: Araújo, M. and Maeso, S. R. eds. Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 114-135., (10.1057/9781137292896_7)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2014. 'Good governance' and 'state failure': the pseudo-science of statesmen in our times. In: Anievas, A., Manchanda, N. and Shilliam, R. eds. Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line. Routledge, pp. 62-80.
2013
- Gruffydd Jones, B. and Heller, C. 2013. Networks and infrastructures of political agency - the political mobilisation of the women of the market in Lomé. In: Maiguashca, B. and Marchetti, R. eds. Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice. Routledge, pp. 163-183.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2013. ‘Good governance’ and ‘state failure’: genealogies of imperial discourse. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 26(1), pp. 49-70. (10.1080/09557571.2012.734785)
2012
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2012. Slavery, Finance and International Political Economy: Postcolonial reflections. In: Seth, S. ed. Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 49-69.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2012. 'Bankable slums': the global politics of slum upgrading. Third World Quarterly 33(5), pp. 769-789. (10.1080/01436597.2012.679027)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2012. Civilising African Cities: International housing and urban policy from colonial to neoliberal times. Journal of Intervention and State Building 6(1), pp. 39-56. (10.1080/17502977.2012.655560)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2012. Method in Political Economy. In: Saad Filho, A. and Fine, B. eds. The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp. 220-227.
2010
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2010. ‘Cities without slums’? Global architectures of power and the African city. Presented at: African Perspectives 2009 Congress, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 25-28 September 2009 Presented at Bakker, K. ed.The African City Centre Re(sourced). Pretoria: University of Pretoria pp. 57-68.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2010. Internationalism and anti-racism in the thought and practice of Mondlane, Neto, Cabral and Machel. In: Shilliam, R. ed. International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 47-63.
2008
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2008. 'Tell no lies, claim no easy victories': possibilities and contradictions of emancipatory struggles in the current neo-colonial condition. In: Ayers, A. J. ed. Gramsci, Political Economy, and International Relations Theory: Modern Princes and Naked Emperors. Palgrave, pp. 209-228.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2008. The global political economy of social crisis: towards a critique of the 'Failed State' ideology. Review of International Political Economy 15(2), pp. 180-205. (10.1080/09692290701869688)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2008. Race in the ontology of international order. Political Studies -Oxford- 56(4), pp. 907-927. (10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00710.x)
2006
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2006. Explaining global poverty: A critical realist approach. Routledge.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2006. International relations, eurocentrism and imperialism. In: Gruffydd Jones, B. ed. Decolonizing International Relations. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 1-19.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2006. Decolonizing International Relations: Imperatives, Possibilities and Limitations. In: Gruffydd Jones, B. ed. Decolonizing International Relations. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 219-241.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2006. Decolonising international relations. Rowman and Littlefield.
2005
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2005. Globalisations, violences and resistances in Mozambique: the struggles continue. In: Eschle, C. and Maiguashca, B. eds. Critical Theories, World Politics and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement’. London: Routledge, pp. 53-73.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2005. Africa and the poverty of International Relations. Third World Quarterly 26(6), pp. 987-1003. (10.1080/01436590500089356)
2003
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2003. Explaining Global Poverty: A realist critique of the orthodox approach. In: Cruickshank, J. ed. Critical Realism: the difference that it makes. London: Routledge, pp. 221-239.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2003. Appearances and realities of post-war reconstruction in Mozambique. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 10, pp. 49-67.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2003. The civilised horrors of over-work: Marxism, imperialism and development of Africa. Review of African Political Economy 30, pp. 33-44.
2002
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2002. Globalisation and the freedom to be poor: from colonial political coercion to the economic compulsion of need. Portuguese Studies Review 10 (1), pp. 108-128.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2023. Amílcar Cabral and the international: Race, colonialism, liberation. In: Williams, H. et al. eds. The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 225–244., (10.1007/978-3-031-36111-1_12)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2022. International theory and critique in unusual places: from Lusotropicalism to anticolonial poetics. In: Layug, A. and Hobson, J. M. eds. Globalizing International Theory: The Problem with Western IR Theory and How to Overcome It. London: Routledge, pp. 219-237.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2018. African anticolonialism in international relations: Against the time of forgetting. In: Iñiguez de Heredia, M. and Wai, Z. eds. Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, pp. 187-223., (10.1007/978-3-319-67510-7_8)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2017. Comradeship, committed and conscious: the anticolonial archive speaks to our times. In: el-Malik, S. S. and Kamola, I. A. eds. Politics of African Anticolonial Archive. Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions Vol. 2. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, pp. 57-82.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2014. Africanist scholarship, eurocentrism and the politics of knowledge. In: Araújo, M. and Maeso, S. R. eds. Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 114-135., (10.1057/9781137292896_7)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2014. 'Good governance' and 'state failure': the pseudo-science of statesmen in our times. In: Anievas, A., Manchanda, N. and Shilliam, R. eds. Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line. Routledge, pp. 62-80.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. and Heller, C. 2013. Networks and infrastructures of political agency - the political mobilisation of the women of the market in Lomé. In: Maiguashca, B. and Marchetti, R. eds. Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice. Routledge, pp. 163-183.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2012. Slavery, Finance and International Political Economy: Postcolonial reflections. In: Seth, S. ed. Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 49-69.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2012. Method in Political Economy. In: Saad Filho, A. and Fine, B. eds. The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp. 220-227.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2010. Internationalism and anti-racism in the thought and practice of Mondlane, Neto, Cabral and Machel. In: Shilliam, R. ed. International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 47-63.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2008. 'Tell no lies, claim no easy victories': possibilities and contradictions of emancipatory struggles in the current neo-colonial condition. In: Ayers, A. J. ed. Gramsci, Political Economy, and International Relations Theory: Modern Princes and Naked Emperors. Palgrave, pp. 209-228.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2006. International relations, eurocentrism and imperialism. In: Gruffydd Jones, B. ed. Decolonizing International Relations. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 1-19.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2006. Decolonizing International Relations: Imperatives, Possibilities and Limitations. In: Gruffydd Jones, B. ed. Decolonizing International Relations. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 219-241.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2005. Globalisations, violences and resistances in Mozambique: the struggles continue. In: Eschle, C. and Maiguashca, B. eds. Critical Theories, World Politics and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement’. London: Routledge, pp. 53-73.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2003. Explaining Global Poverty: A realist critique of the orthodox approach. In: Cruickshank, J. ed. Critical Realism: the difference that it makes. London: Routledge, pp. 221-239.
Cynadleddau
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2010. ‘Cities without slums’? Global architectures of power and the African city. Presented at: African Perspectives 2009 Congress, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 25-28 September 2009 Presented at Bakker, K. ed.The African City Centre Re(sourced). Pretoria: University of Pretoria pp. 57-68.
Erthyglau
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2023. Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures. Postcolonial Studies 26, pp. 32-54. (10.1080/13688790.2023.2127656)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2020. Race, culture and liberation: African anticolonial thought and practice in the time of decolonisation. International History Review 42(6), pp. 1238-1256. (10.1080/07075332.2019.1695138)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2019. Time, history, politics: Anticolonial constellations. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21(5), pp. 592-614. (10.1080/1369801X.2019.1585919)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2018. Reviews of special issue. Cooperation and Conflict 53(3), pp. NP2-NP16. (10.1177/0010836718787841)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2016. Definitions and categories: epistemologies of race and critique. Postcolonial Studies 19(2), pp. 173-184. (10.1080/13688790.2016.1254014)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2015. Le Malentendu International: remembering international relations with Jean-Marie Teno. Alternatives 40(2), pp. 133-155. (10.1177/0304375415590913)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2015. From rupture to revolution: race, culture and the practice of anti-colonial thought. African Identities 13(1), pp. 4-17. (10.1080/14725843.2015.1048064)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2013. ‘Good governance’ and ‘state failure’: genealogies of imperial discourse. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 26(1), pp. 49-70. (10.1080/09557571.2012.734785)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2012. 'Bankable slums': the global politics of slum upgrading. Third World Quarterly 33(5), pp. 769-789. (10.1080/01436597.2012.679027)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2012. Civilising African Cities: International housing and urban policy from colonial to neoliberal times. Journal of Intervention and State Building 6(1), pp. 39-56. (10.1080/17502977.2012.655560)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2008. The global political economy of social crisis: towards a critique of the 'Failed State' ideology. Review of International Political Economy 15(2), pp. 180-205. (10.1080/09692290701869688)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2008. Race in the ontology of international order. Political Studies -Oxford- 56(4), pp. 907-927. (10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00710.x)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2005. Africa and the poverty of International Relations. Third World Quarterly 26(6), pp. 987-1003. (10.1080/01436590500089356)
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2003. Appearances and realities of post-war reconstruction in Mozambique. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 10, pp. 49-67.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2003. The civilised horrors of over-work: Marxism, imperialism and development of Africa. Review of African Political Economy 30, pp. 33-44.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2002. Globalisation and the freedom to be poor: from colonial political coercion to the economic compulsion of need. Portuguese Studies Review 10 (1), pp. 108-128.
Llyfrau
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2006. Explaining global poverty: A critical realist approach. Routledge.
- Gruffydd Jones, B. 2006. Decolonising international relations. Rowman and Littlefield.
Ymchwil
In recent years my research has pursued the ongoing collaborative project initiated with the edited volume Decolonizing International Relations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006); a critical examination of international housing and 'slum-upgrading' policies in Africa; and consideration of methods of critique demonstrated in African film. My research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and the British Academy.
My current project, African Anticolonialism in International Relations, examines the political thought and practice of the liberation movements of Portugal’s African colonies in the broader continental and global context of decolonisation. I am a member of a team of colleagues based in Portugal working on the collaborative project Amílcar Cabral, da História Política às Políticas da Memória (Amílcar Cabral, from political history to the politics of memory), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. I am a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Review of African Political Economy, and was Book Reviews Editor 2008-14.
Addysgu
Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n addysgu neu wedi dysgu'r modiwlau canlynol yn ddiweddar: Dad-drefedigaethu'r Presennol (MSc/MA Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol); Affrica mewn Meddwl Rhyngwladol: Gwladychiaeth, Anticolonialiaeth, Ôl-wladychiaeth (israddedigion y drydedd flwyddyn); Gwladychiaeth, Economi Wleidyddol a Datblygiad Byd-eang (israddedigion ail flwyddyn); Cyflwyniad i Globaleiddio (israddedigion blwyddyn gyntaf).
Yn 2018 roeddwn yn falch iawn o dderbyn enwebiadau myfyrwyr ar gyfer y cynllun Gwobrau Cyfoethogi Bywyd Myfyrwyr, o dan gategorïau Darlithydd Mwyaf Dyrchafol, a Darlithydd Mwyaf Arloesol.
Bywgraffiad
I joined Cardiff in March 2016 as Reader in International Relations, and served as Head of Department from September 2016 to August 2018.
I was previously Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London (2007-2016); Lecturer in African Political Economy, University of Leeds (2006-7); Lecturer in International Relations, University of Aberdeen (2003-2006); and ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Sussex (2002-3). I obtained my DPhil and MA (Development Studies) from the University of Sussex and my BA (General Engineering) from the University of Cambridge. After graduating with an engineering degree I worked in Uganda for a year (1994-5) for Rwenzori Highlands Tea Company, and then for nine months (1996) with the water engineering company General Utilities Projects in Watford, part of the French company Générale des Eaux.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I am currently co-supervising Harry Conway's doctoral research into the implementation of REDD+ forest management projects in Liberia.
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