Edited volumes/ Special Issues
2021 International Politics Reviews: book forum of Isaac Kamola’s Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (co-editor with Jonneke Koomen - 50%)
2018 Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics (co-editor with Robbie Shilliam – 50%)
2018 Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning, Routledge (co-editor with Rosalba Icaza and Sara de Jong – 33%)
Journal articles
2024 ‘Refusing Disavowal and Discovery: Notes on Narrative Epistemic Blackness as Method(ology)’ in POMEPS Studies 52 – Race Politics and Colonial Legacies: France, Africa and the Middle East
2024 Reading-trough be-longing. Towards a methodology for political sciences otherwise. Asian Journal of Women Studies
2023 After Inclusion. Thinking with Julian Go's ‘Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory’British Journal of Sociology
2021 ‘Reflections from the forum organizers’, with Koomen, J., International Politics Reviews (2021) online first. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41312-021-00095-0
2020 ‘Hidden in plain sight. Race/ism and coloniality as far as the eye can see.’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies 48 (2), 221-241
2019 ‘What's There to Mourn? Decolonial Reflections on (the End of) Liberal Humanitarianism.’ Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 1(1)
2016 ‘From the everyday to IR: In Defence of the Strategic Use of the R-word’. Postcolonial Studies 19(2):1-10
2014 ‘Studying Agaciro. Moving beyond Wilsonian Interventionist Knowledge Production on Rwanda’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 8(4), 291-302
Book chapters
2021 Atuire CA & OU Rutazibwa (July 2021) “An African Reading of the Covid-19 pandemic and the stakes of decolonization” in Human and Social Costs of Covid Response. UK Karunakara, P Chatterjee and AM Miller (eds.). Global Health Justice Partnership: Yale University, New Haven.
2021 ‘What’s There to Celebrate? What’s There to Mourn? Decolonial Retrievals of Humanitarianism.’ in: Amidst the Debris. Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order. eds. Andrea Rigon, Rafia Zakaria, Juliano Fiori, Fernando Espada and Bertrand Taithe, pp. 369-376
2020 ‘Intermezzo I: Knowledge Orders, II: Methodology, III: Academia’ with Bhambra, G., Boatca, M., Hansen, P., Popal, M., Shilliam, R., Suarez-Krabbe, J. in: Ziai, A., Bendix, D., & Müller, F. Beyond the Master's Tools?: Decolonizing Knowledge Orders, Research Methods and Teaching. Special book series Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions, London: Rowman and Littlefield International
2019 ‘Agaciro. Re-centering Dignity in Development’ with Eric Ndushabandi. in: Escobar, A., Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Acosta, A., Demaria, F. Pluriverse. A Post-Development Dictionary. New Delhi: Columbia University Press.
2019 ‘Who do we think we are?’ with Annick T.R. Wibben, Chapter 5 in: Global Politics. Third Edition, ed. Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss, London: Routledge
2018 ‘On Babies and Bathwater. Decolonizing International Development.’ Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning, Routledge, eds. Rosalba Icaza and Sara de Jong, Olivia U. Rutazibwa
2014 ‘Back to Basics: Decolonizing Democracy in Africa’, Africa South of the Sahara 2015. Routledge
Non-peer reviewed
2020 “In conversation with Olivia U. Rutazibwa” by Paul Gilroy, 18 October UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation podcast (interview)
“IR Should Abandon the Notion of Aid, and Address Racism and Reparations” Foreign Policy, 3 July 2020, Why Is Mainstream International Relations Blind to Racism? With Gurminder K. Bhambra, Yolande Bouka, Randolph B. Persaud, Vineet Thakur, Duncan Bell, Karen Smith, Toni Haastrup, Seifudein Adem (roundtable essay)
2019 Interview: Olivia Rutazibwa. E-International Relations 28 October 2019 (interview)
2019 Zwijgen is Geen Optie (Belgium) ‘Olivia Rutazibwa: Racisme dient een doel’, (video/podcast interviewee)
2018 ‘Understanding Epistemic Diversity: Decoloniality as a Research Strategy’. ISS (blogpost)
2015 ‘Comforting discomfort of rebel music: some diaspora Legba/Pākehā reflections on Robbie Shilliam’s ‘The Black Pacific’’ review essay in The Disorder of Things (blogpost)
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