Densua Mumford
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. D. Mumford
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- d.mumford@luc.leidenuniv.nl
Densua Mumford is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Her research explores African international relations, on the one hand, and the politics of the internet and digital technologies, on the other. Her work today contributes to decolonising perspectives on international relations.
Biography
Densua Mumford is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). She completed her DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Her research explores the international relations of African peoples and states, especially the role of regional organisations such as the African Union, ECOWAS, and SADC in the political dynamics of the continent. Her previous projects have explained the creation and empowerment of regional parliaments such as the ECOWAS Parliament, with a focus on the agency and beliefs of African actors. She is a coordinating member of the international scientific network ‘Recentring African Subjects and Subjectivities: Proposition for a New Research Agenda on Regionalism in Africa’ (RASS), which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She also has an interest in the politics of the internet and digital technologies, with publications on cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies. Her research and teaching contributes to decolonising perspectives on international relations.
Densua Mumford serves as a member of the FGGA Faculty Council and is a co-founder and co-organiser of the Decolonising Collective Leiden.
Academic Expertise
- African International Relations
- International and regional organisations
- Politics of the internet and digital technologies
- Decolonial IR
Courses
- Struggles for Decolonisation: Past and Present
- International & Regional Organisations in World Politics
- Political Research Design
- Introduction to Globalisation & Transnational Politics
- Foundational Texts in World Politics
- Academic Writing
Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College The Hague
Work address
Anna van BuerenpleinAnna van Buerenplein 301
2595 DG The Hague
Room number 4.06
Contact
- Mumford D., Sampson M.D. & Shires J. (2024), The promises and pitfalls of cryptocurrencies and blockchain for marginalized communities, Information, Communication and Society : 1-18.
- Mumford D. & Shires J. (2023), Toward a decolonial cybersecurity: interrogating the racial-epistemic hierarchies that constitute cybersecurity expertise, Security Studies 32(4-5): 622-652.
- Mumford D. (2023), Confronting coloniality in cyberspace: how to make the concept of (in)stability useful. In: Chesney R., Shires J. & Smeets M. (Eds.), Cyberspace and instability. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 299-329.
- Mumford D. & Shires J. (10 November 2023), Race and coloniality in cybersecurity. E-International relations. [blog entry].
- Mumford D. (2021), How regional norms shape regional organizations: the Pan-African rhetorical trap and the empowerment of the ECOWAS Parliament, African Affairs 120(478): 1-25.
- Mumford D. (2021), Building regional communities: the role of regional organisations in Africa. In: Futak-Campbell B. (Ed.), Globalizing regionalism and international relations. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 77-101.
- Mumford D. (2021), Data colonialism: compelling and useful, but whither epistemes?, Information, Communication and Society 25(10): 1511-1516.
- Mumford D. (3 October 2020), Comparative regionalism's decolonial turn: a proposition. E-International relations. [blog entry].
- Mumford Densua & Selck Torsten J. (2010), New Labour's Ethical Dimension: Statistical Trends in Tony Blair's Foreign Policy Speeches, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 12(2): 295-312.