Research areas
Yang's research explores the logic(s) of global hierarchies from a critical, postcolonial IR perspective. Her first book project focuses on the worldviews as pertains to the hierarchical nature of global politics that underlie the Chinese society's 21st century discourses on Africa. Yang is also keen to explore 'the international' - how it comes into being, how it is perceived or imagined, as well as its composition in the first place.
Selected publications
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Open access
Banal modernity: a logic of hierarchization in International Relations
Han, Y., Jun 2026, In: European Journal of International Relations. 32, 2, p. 347-374 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Norm entrepreneurship at the UN: addressing racial equality across borders and the South–North divide
Han, Y., 7 May 2026, Emancipating international law: confronting the violence of racialized boundaries. al Attar, M. & Smith, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University PressOxford, p. 347-362Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Tree as method: how translocalization makes the international
Han, Y., Li, Y. & Alibegović, A., 12 Aug 2026, In: Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 54, 3, p. 584-613 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Is Chinese IR Scholarship White? A Non-Dichotomous Critique of ‘The International as Singular, Enlightened and Sanitised’
Han, Y., 24 Nov 2024, In: Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 53, 1, p. 163-190 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review