A typology of homegrown theorizing

Aydınlı, Ersel; Biltekin, Gonca

doi:10.4324/9780203702239-2

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“…Decentring requires including and starting from different worldviews, theories and approaches to understand and explain the world, which can also provide insights and explanations for Europe's position in the world. Examples include African (Ngcoya 2015; Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2018) Asian (Qin 2018;Shih et al 2019;deSouza 2020) and various other Global South (Tickner and Blaney 2013;Acharya 2014;Aydinli and Biltekin 2018) as well as other non-Western perspectives and schools of thought (Ling 2014;Sheikh 2016;Shahi 2020). In this context, Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2018: 6) emphasises the importance of 'a decolonial epistemological move of decentring the Global North as the centre of knowledge and recentring the Global South'.…”

Section: Relevance For Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies

Lecocq,

Keukeleire

2023

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This article proposes a decentring approach for EU External Action Studies as a debate that is ‘disrupting’ the mainstream in European Studies. It theoretically contributes to the decentring debate in three ways. First, by identifying decentring as a meta-theoretical current of thinking, the article helps define the decentring debate as an area of theorising which can accommodate scholars from various backgrounds and bring them together around a common commitment to overcome Euro- and Western centrism in scholarship (and practice). Second, the article states the wider relevance of taking a decentring approach, which entails normative and instrumental benefits for scholarship, teaching and practice. By doing so, the article underscores the ethical imperative of disrupting a field of study on the one hand, but also the usefulness and even the necessity of disruption as a problem-solving approach to the benefit of a field’s mainstream centre on the other. Third, the article shows how the decentring debate accommodates both critical and problem-solving theorising, and proposes potential theoretical anchors in existing bodies of work. Finally, it discusses the inherent paradox that follows from critical and problem-solving approaches to decentring specifically and disruptive theorising more broadly.

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Section: Relevance For Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies

Lecocq,

Keukeleire

2023

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“…However, global IR scholars suggest that even if neorealism thusly diversifies, it still reduces the role of the non-Western neorealist to a technician who must employ correctly and test empirically theory developed elsewhere. As Mamdani writes, “colonialism brought with it the assumption that theory is the product of Western tradition and that the aim of academies outside the West is to apply it” (quoted from Mamdani, 2018: 32; also see: Aydinli and Biltekin, 2018a: 3). Neorealism fails to lend agency to actors and to recognize cultural and historical divergence in its causal mechanisms: “Realism falls like a hood on all variations, across space and time” (Chatterjee, 2017: 6).…”

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confidence: 99%

Realist avenues to global International Relations

Foulon

Meibauer

2020

European Journal of International Relations

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Realism has long been criticized by global IR, but the former can contribute to the latter and thereby improve explanations of international relations. Global IR criticizes that realism supposedly applies universally, sidelines non-Western perspectives, and misunderstands much of foreign policy, grand strategy, and international affairs. Reviewing global IR’s case against realism, however, exposes avenues for realism to complement global IR. Realism can contribute to a more global understanding of international relations through its most recent variant: neoclassical realism (NCR). This newest realism allows for contextualization and historicization of drivers of state behavior. It can embrace and has already been engaging global questions and cases; global thought and concepts; and global perspectives and scholarship. Mapping 149 NCR publications produced by 96 scholars reveals a slow shift in knowledge production away from North America toward Europe and to a lesser extent Asia and Africa. Creative research designs and scholarly collaboration can put realism in fruitful conversation with global IR. This has implications for theory building and inclusive knowledge production in realism, global IR, and the wider discipline. Only when we discover new avenues for realists to travel can they contribute to a more global IR. In turn, when global IR scholars engage realism, they may be better able to address the Western versus non-Western dichotomies they challenge.

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“…Common to the debate is the “dedication to IR’s (un)internationality” (Peters & Wemheuer-Vogelaar, 2016, p. 7), although scholars have pursued this objective in different ways. Some strands have focused on critically reexamining and decentering established narratives (Narayan & Harding, 2000; Nayak & Selbin, 2013; Ní Mhurchú & Shindo, 2016), while others have looked toward pluralizing the discipline by focusing on the emergence and development of new conceptual frameworks for and by the Global South (Aydinli & Biltekin, 2018; Tickner & Blaney, 2012, 2013).…”

Section: Ir and Its Western-centric Limitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…IR knowledge is also ordered along these lines. In the globalizing IR debate, the need to develop conceptual frameworks by and for the Global South has been articulated (Acharya, 2011; Aydinli & Biltekin, 2018). Yet in view of the observations above, a pure Global South concept must be considered an ideal type, given that the Global South is not a place that exists in isolation but is constituted by and interacts with other geographies.…”

Section: Binary Logics and Global South Theorizingmentioning

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Blurring Borders: Investigating the Western/Global South Identity of Human Security

Gelardi

2020

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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In the globalizing international relations (IR) debate, the “West” and “Global South” have conventionally been presented as fundamentally different categories. This has disguised any interconnectedness between the two categories and variation within them. What does this mean for the quest for “Global South theorizing?” In order to address this binary logic in the globalizing IR literature, I analyze the case of human security as an example of Global South theorizing. First, I disentangle the Western/Global South origins and inflection of the human security concept and find that there is Global South agency related to its conceptual development, but also Western inflections. Second, I examine and compare the apparent rejection of the concept in two regions of the Global South—Southeast Asia and Latin America—and find both similarities and differences in their disinterest in engaging with the concept. Curiously, the similarities lie in the positionality of these regions and their difference to the West. In this way, the article points to the danger of using these categories in a manner that reemphasizes binary logics and their constitutive effects, and it exposes the complexity regarding what we consider Global South and Global South theorizing.

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A typology of homegrown theorizing

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies

Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies

Realist avenues to global International Relations

Blurring Borders: Investigating the Western/Global South Identity of Human Security

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