Coloniality, just war &amp; carceral injustice in Brazil

Darke, Sacha; Khan, Omar Phoenix

doi:10.1177/14624745211041849

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“…The stakes of this mystification of our understanding of the “global majority” could not be higher in the current political moment. Indeed, the present instantiation of the fetishization of the subaltern has particularly grave consequences at a time when postcolonial nation-states like India and Brazil are themselves advancing a highly imperialist politics toward their own national minorities (Darke and Khan, 2021; Kaul, 2021; Menon, 2022).…”

Section: The Mystification Of the Subaltern In International Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production

Stoffel

Birkvad

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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This paper identifies a common process of mystification within academic knowledge production today: the treatment of subordinated groups as mere metaphors or rhetorical figures for academic theorizing. We witness it when academics ask what trans might teach us about transnationality, when we are invited to reflect on what might be queer about modern warfare, or when nation-states are described as subaltern. Trans, queer, and subaltern populations are routinely fetishized within scholarship on the “traditional” International Relations concerns of statecraft, migration, security, and so on. This tendency serves a mystifying function by disabling scholars from examining the social relations that shape and organize their lives and histories. This paper proceeds in three parts. First, to understand the origins and logics of this self-mystifying process, this paper returns, via Stuart Hall, to Karl Marx’s methodological writings on abstraction. It contributes to the formalization of his methodology for contemporary IR scholarship by drawing a distinction between the fetishization of abstraction and the concretization of abstraction. Second, the paper explores how abstracted subject positions have been fetishized within three fields of international studies: trans studies, queer theory, and subaltern studies. Third, after elaborating a critique of this mystifying move, the paper outlines alternative approaches that instead seek to concretize the abstractions queer, trans, and subaltern by attending to their specific historical and social determinations. These strategies of demystification, we argue, carry forward a founding commitment of critical theory that is all too often abandoned within scholarly knowledge production today.

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Section: The Mystification Of the Subaltern In International Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production

Stoffel

Birkvad

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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“…At the same time, the construction of “modern” penal institutions, discourses, and practices in Latin America often reproduced a “colonial matrix of power” (Quijano, 2000; see also Mignolo and Walsh, 2018), through a selective deployment of the power to punish that reinforced social hierarchies historically built during the colonial era in terms of class, race, and gender (Bracco Bruce, 2022: 40–42, 2023: 296–297; Darke and Khan, 2021: 725–726; Khan, 2023: 165–167, 175–177; Rodriguez Santos, 2023: 201–202; Segato, 2007).…”

Section: Moving Forward: Paradox Risks and Antidotesmentioning

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Reading penalty from the periphery

Sozzo

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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This article presents a critical reflection on the task of reading penality from the periphery, adding to several significant contributions in punishment and society studies. It explores the center/periphery, North/South differentiations and their uses in recent social theory as a useful tool for studying contemporary penality at a global scale. It argues that previous modes of analysis did not put relations of inequality, subordination and dependence between different regions of the world in their agenda of research, because they were overwhelmingly concerned with penal processes and dynamics in the central contexts. Instead, it calls for placing at center stage the effects of imperialism and colonialism, in their different forms throughout history, in ways of thinking and acting in relation to penality and the center/periphery. From there, the article identifies some paradoxes and risks, as well as antidotes that provide a horizon for our future research.

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“…Likewise, scholars identify legacies of colonialism in contemporary punitive responses. In this vein, Darke and Khan (2021: 734) argue that Brazilian elites justify the use of lethal violence by relying on a racial hierarchical logic inherited from the Portuguese empire.…”

Section: Latin America and Southern Criminologymentioning

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How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?

Galleguillos

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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Criminological research published in Latin America has received limited attention in global debates. Inspired by the Southern criminology project, in this article I aim to fill this gap by describing the main features of articles published in Latin America and exploring to what extent these publications reflect the core elements posited by Southern criminologists. To this end, I propose a novel operationalization of Southern criminology coding topics and theoretical frameworks using a dataset I compiled with articles published in 2020 in Latin America (N = 230). The results show that most of the articles are non-empirical and almost half of them are Southern articles. Also, the findings suggest that when articles adopt a Southern theoretical framework, almost all of them are non-empirical. I conclude by discussing the results within the larger context of Latin American academia, arguing for the need to expand empirical approaches to achieve the goals of Southern criminology.

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Coloniality, just war & carceral injustice in Brazil

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production

Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production

Reading penalty from the periphery

How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?

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