<i>Ubuntu</i>: Toward an Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism?

Ngcoya, Mvuselelo

doi:10.1111/ips.12095

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“…Relational account of being a citizen of a border‐free world, from father and son in Ghana to father and son in Glasgow by H.W., is redolent of Appiah's account of his own father's exhortation “remember you are citizens of the world” (Appiah, , p. 618). Appiah, against academic critique of the concept of cosmopolitanism, develops a “rooted cosmopolitanism” (see also emancipatory cosmopolitanism [Ngcoya, ; Pieterse, ]). Mobilizing such a worldview evokes a psychology of open unfolding relations, where OWN becomes a stabilizing narrative at the core of a situated and transient existence.…”

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Public narratives on human mobility: Countering technocratic and humanitarian refugee narratives with a “one‐world” solidarity narrative

Mahendran

2017

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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This article articulates a one‐world narrative, which reconfigures human mobility in dialogical response to the ideational borders of the European Union. Fifty‐two semi‐structured interviews, in Scotland and Sweden, bring participants, ranging from people with refugee status to the generationally nonmobile, into dialogue with the integration ideals of the European Union. Within this ideational space, participants employ I‐positional dialogical capacities such as “outsideness” and “multivoicedness” to articulate a postnational “one‐world” solidarity narrative (OWN). OWN is revealed as distinct from a posthuman “one‐earth” sustainability narrative, which was found to “border” and delimit mobility. Three dimensions of OWN, (a) borders as constructed; (b) citizen of the world; and (c) accidental nature of existence, together repoliticise depoliticised technocratic reasoning, culturalism, and the asymmetries of humanitarian narratives on refugees. In conclusion, articulating the public's dialogical capacities is key to moving beyond public opinion towards public dialogue on vexed political questions such as immigration.

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Public narratives on human mobility: Countering technocratic and humanitarian refugee narratives with a “one‐world” solidarity narrative

Mahendran

2017

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Ubuntu suggests the potential that we become more human in recognising the humanity of others, which, as Ngcoya (2015) notes, provides a point of departure for a more emancipatory cosmopolitanism. While conventional cosmopolitan conceptions of IR have a hard time engaging with world views and conceptions of indigenous peoples, the latter come into focus, he argues, with a more emancipatory cosmopolitism ‘from below’, which rebalances by accounting for the diversity of social and cultural forces in a globalising world.…”

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Global conversations: Relationality, embodiment and power in the move towards a Global IR

Fierke

Jabri²

2019

Glob. Con.

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Abstract:The ‘global turn’ in International Relations (IR), like postcolonial and decolonising approaches, moves away from the Eurocentric dominance of the discipline, and towards the inclusion of plural perspectives on global politics. The article investigates what such a call means in epistemological and ontological terms by focusing on the concept of ‘global conversations’. In section I, we show that the concept of ‘global’ conversations necessarily shifts from an individual ontology to a relational ontology of intra-action within a global space. In section II we explore why ‘conversation’, as distinct from dialogue fits more comfortably with this relational shift and has practical implications for how the engagement takes place. The third section engages in an exploration of some of the obstacles to global conversation, and not least the emotional obstacles, in light of historically embedded and embodied relations of power that shape who can speak and who is silenced or heard. The final section then engages in a discussion of the types of practical engagement and research that might flow from this analysis. In moving beyond ‘dialogue’, the article reveals the intersection of power, language, emotion and embodiment in the constitution of ‘global conversations’, and how these in turn come to constitute the global, its normative structuring, contestations and transformation.

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“…Shilliam's focus can be expanded out much further to consider a whole range of alternative non-Western cosmologies that are embraced by indigenous, epistemic agents in the non-Western world, which include Ubuntu (Ngcora 2015 (Shani 2015)-in order to create a "Post-Western conception of human security" (Shani 2015) or decolonial conceptions of human sovereignty (Mignolo 2011a).…”

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Navigating Beyond the Eurofetishist Frontier of Critical IR Theory: Exploring the Complex Landscapes of Non-Western Agency

Hobson

Sajed

2017

International Studies Review

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Ubuntu: Toward an Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism?

Cited by 35 publications

References 39 publications

Public narratives on human mobility: Countering technocratic and humanitarian refugee narratives with a “one‐world” solidarity narrative

Public narratives on human mobility: Countering technocratic and humanitarian refugee narratives with a “one‐world” solidarity narrative

Global conversations: Relationality, embodiment and power in the move towards a Global IR

Navigating Beyond the Eurofetishist Frontier of Critical IR Theory: Exploring the Complex Landscapes of Non-Western Agency

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