From Global Transformation to Big Bang-A Response to Buzan and Lawson

Phillips, Andrew

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“…The withering away of colonial empires after 1945 and the contemporary ubiquity of the sovereign territorial state alludes to a form of ‘global sovereign state monoculture’ and the triumph of Western political modernity (Phillips, 2013: 642). However, the demise of territorial heterogeneity and the coalescence of border, territory and sovereignty was not a historical inevitability (Goettlich, 2019; Phillips and Sharman, 2020).…”

Section: Modern Territoriality and The Territorialisation Of World Po...mentioning

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From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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Scholarship on the origins of modern territoriality and the modernist conception of territory has largely been confined to Europe and its colonial histories. Few attempts have been made to understand modern territoriality from an alternative epistemic starting point. This article moves beyond critiques of Eurocentrism by examining the territorial metamorphosis of the Qing Empire to modern China. Like the United States and Russia, China has retained its early modern continental colonial possessions. In order to explain the territorialisation of the multi-ethnic Qing empire, this article engages empirically with cartographic and textual representations of China from Confucian literati scholars, European Jesuit cartographers and the Manchu imperial court from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. The empirical study shows that by the early 19th century, a new territorialised conception of ‘China’ closely resembling that of modern territoriality had emerged. This ‘modern’ and Sinocentric form of territoriality encompassed areas that were hitherto seen as foreign and non-Chinese. In opposition to the extant Eurocentric historiography, this article traces the emergence of modern territoriality in imperial China to a nexus of European cartographic techniques, Qing imperial conquests and the literati synthesis of Manchu imperial and Sinocentric forms of territoriality. By showing the deep historical processes and global entanglements behind the emergence of modern China as a territorial state, the article makes a case for a polycentric account of modern territoriality

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From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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“…Furthermore, the cultural theory of modernity that Taylor develops enlarges our understanding of the multiple cultural forms of modernity. The "big bang" of the 19th century was not universal or uniform, as modernization took on multiple forms, with a Eurasian transformation, for instance (Phillips 2013(Phillips , 2016Eisenstadt 2000).…”

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The Modern International Imaginary

McKeil¹

2018

Social Imaginaries

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This article aims to bridge the literature of modern social imaginaries with the growing study of modernity in International Relations. Employing a Taylorian conceptual framework and account, the case is made for understanding modern international relations as enabled and constrained by a "modern international imaginary", which forms a significant part of the modern social imaginary more generally. It is argued that a modern social imaginaries approach offers a means to deepen and enlarge the growing studies of the international implications of modernity, by illuminating overlooked cultural preconditions and forms of modern international relations. First, a social imaginaries approach reveals the international to be coeval with the emergence of modern social imaginaries in general, and that it has come to form their "highest" and most consistently and severely problematic realm. Second, its insight into the enabling and constraining effects of social imaginaries offers a basis for studying the horizons of the international towards a "global imaginary". Third, unpacking the modern international imaginary offers qualitative benefits for international theory as practice.

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“…In the remainder, I discuss the implications of long 19th-century dynamics for how we think about religion and international politics today. I pay particular attention to: contemporary and historical entanglements; the sociological and socially productive effects of imperial and hierarchical world orderings; their power–knowledge operations; and how religious and political activities in both the global North and South continue to reflect the socially productive powers of politically mediated global encounters (Phillips, 2013: 641).…”

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Recognizing religion: Politics, history, and the “long 19th century”

Agensky

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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Analyses of religion and international politics routinely concern the persistence of religion as a critical element in world affairs. However, they tend to neglect the constitutive interconnections between religion and political life. Consequently, religion is treated as exceptional to mainstream politics. In response, recent works focus on the relational dimensions of religion and international politics. This article advances an “entangled history” approach that emphasizes the constitutive, relational, and historical dimensions of religion — as a practice, discursive formation, and analytical category. It argues that these public dimensions of religion share their conditions of possibility and intelligibility in a political order that crystallized over the long 19th century. The neglect of this period has enabled International Relations to treat religion with a sense of closure at odds with the realities of religious political behavior and how it is understood. Refocusing on religion’s historical entanglements recovers the concept as a means of explaining international relations by “recognizing” how it is constituted as a category of social life. Beyond questions of the religious and political, this article speaks to renewed debates about the role of history in International Relations, proposing entanglement as a productive framing for international politics more generally.

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From Global Transformation to Big Bang-A Response to Buzan and Lawson

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers

From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers

The Modern International Imaginary

Recognizing religion: Politics, history, and the “long 19th century”

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