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

Hobson, John M.; Sajed, Alina

doi:10.1093/isr/vix013

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“…Struggling to describe my own transformations working as a codesigner within various community settings, the concept of becoming minor helped me to frame the quality of these codesign practices as imaginations of Otherness. What I experienced during the community-based making of mycelium bags, in the discussions accompanying the collaborative prototyping for bicycle friendly cities but also in the frictions of online-communication, silences of workshops participants and the disgust to engage with "dirty matters" (Duque & Popplow, 2019) like fungal mycelium were "interstitial surprises" (Hobson & Sajed, 2017). These moments were encounters with other knowledges, other ways of doing things, other ways of being, and in the best case disruptions of routines that opened up a space to imagine Otherness, perspectives to transform on micro as well as macro levels.…”

Section: Proposal: Becoming Minor Transforming Through Imaginations mentioning

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Transforming through imaginations of Otherness

Popplow¹

2020

Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers

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Section: Proposal: Becoming Minor Transforming Through Imaginations mentioning

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Transforming through imaginations of Otherness

Popplow¹

2020

Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers

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“…Recent studies have also considered the role of social or indigenous movements but hardly that of academics themselves (for exceptions see e.g. Hamati-Ataya, 2012; Hobson and Sajed, 2017).…”

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Who makes the world? Academics and (un)cancelling the future

Holthaus

Stockmann

2020

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In this essay, we consider the role of academics as change-makers. There is a long line of reflection about academics’ sociopolitical role(s) in international relations (IR). Yet, our attempt differs from available considerations in two regards. First, we emphasize that academics are not a homogenous group. While some keep their distance from policymakers, others frequently provide policy advice. Hence, positions and possibilities of influence differ. Second, our argument is not oriented towards the past but the future. That is, we develop our reflections on academics as change-makers by outlining the vision of a ‘FutureLab’, an innovative, future forum that brings together different world-makers who are united in their attempt to improve ‘the world'. Our vision accounts for current, perhaps alarming trends in academia, such as debates about the (in)ability to confront post-truth politics. Still, it is a (critically) optimistic one and can be read as an invitation for experimentation. Finally, we sympathize with voices demanding the democratization of academia and find that further cross-disciplinary dialogues within academia and dialogues between different academics, civil society activists and policymakers may help in finding creditable solutions to problems such as climate change and populism.

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“…Luxemburg’s analysis of the world is an example of what Hobson and Sajed (2017) have termed ‘Eurofetishism’. Eurofetishismoccurs when the analyst reifies or fetishizes the West as having absolute power and agency such that it obscures or elides the co-constitutive social relations between Western and non-Western agents, the upshot of which is the tendency to eternalise and naturalise the ‘all-powerful West’ in world politics and the global political economy.…”

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Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s internationalism

O’Brien

2019

Journal of International Political Theory

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In an era where internationalism is on the retreat in the Western world, a modified version of Rosa Luxemburg’s thinking about internationalism can serve as a useful guide for those concerned about relations between peoples in different countries. Luxemburg contributes to existing internationalist, cosmopolitan and transnational approaches by offering a unique set of answers to questions about the appropriate ethics, political project and tools to be adopted. Her ethical stance of the universal worth of all people was informed both by a deep sense of empathy and her theoretical analysis of capitalism. She believed that citizens had a duty to hold their governments accountable for foreign policy and that the world formed a single system and community. The political project was one of radical transformation and equality. European nations faced the option of transforming into more egalitarian and peaceful societies or descending into barbarism. Central to this transformation was a constant struggle against militarism and imperialism. Key tools for transformation included mass mobilisation, vibrant democratic debate and revolutionary reform of the political system. Problematic aspects of Luxemburg’s internationalism that require revision include her insensitivity to the importance of national identity and Eurocentrism.

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

Cited by 69 publications

References 57 publications

Transforming through imaginations of Otherness

Transforming through imaginations of Otherness

Who makes the world? Academics and (un)cancelling the future

Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s internationalism

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