Property, Geopolitics, and Eurocentrism: The “Great Divergence” and the Ottoman Empire

Duzgun, Eren

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“…Alternatively, the notion of a ‘world‐system’ (Arrighi, 1994; Wallerstein, 2004) suggests that local particularities are subsumed under a systemic totality. Part of this paper's argument is that the PM tradition offers yet another alternative by emphasising geopolitical practices that are not only ‘within’ or ‘between’ national boundaries, instead tracking how these very boundaries are shaped and resignified by particular strategies of accumulation (Duzgun, 2018; Knafo, 2013; Knafo & Teschke, 2020; Teschke, 2003; Wood, 1995).…”

Section: Bourgeois Revolutions In Marxmentioning

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The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique

Salgado

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The origins of capitalism in Brazil have been traditionally overlooked by the literature on its developmental trajectory, either considered as an outcome of colonial exploitation or described through a broad notion of ‘bourgeois revolution’. The recent discussion between the consequentialist interpretation of bourgeois revolutions and the Political Marxist critique of the bourgeois paradigm allows for a reassessment of these narratives, with a stronger emphasis on the specific disputes of early‐20th‐century Brazil. In this paper, I engage with Florestan Fernandes as the main representative of the bourgeois paradigm within Brazil. As an alternative, I present a reassessment of the ‘capitalist transition’ understood as a set of social property relations organised around market dependency. By tracing this form of market dependency through Brazilian historiography, I present a narrative that posits the development of capitalism in Brazil through the nonrevolutionary rise of an industrial bourgeoisie during the Old Republic and the competing strategies of declining (British) and rising (US/Germany) financial imperialism in the 1920s. Therefore, it highlights the role of (geo)political disputes by pointing towards the policy changes introduced by the Vargas regime in the 1930s as a key factor in the transition to capitalism in Brazil.

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Section: Bourgeois Revolutions In Marxmentioning

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The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique

Salgado

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Karl Polanyi against postcolonial theory: beyond Eurocentric anti-Eurocentrism

Duzgun

2024

Dialect Anthropol

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Postcolonial theory has been at the forefront of attempts to remedy the problem of Eurocentrism. This article argues that postcolonial theory has not progressed far enough in successfully treating the problem of Eurocentrism, for it has not sufficiently abided by its own methodological underpinnings, i.e., it has not satisfactorily developed its own critique of the “presentist” conceptions of history. More precisely, postcolonial theory has not shown how to make a complete departure from the methodologically presentist conceptions of capitalism, which, in turn, limits our ability to overcome hierarchical readings of global modernity. To problematize and fill this gap, I take an unconventional tack, turning to a seldomly cited figure in debates on Eurocentrism: Karl Polanyi. I contend that although Polanyi places the origins of capitalist modernity in Europe, his historical sociology provides an alternative and more definitive solution for presentism and Eurocentrism. Polanyi’s rejection of the “economistic” and “dualistic” understandings of human life, his insistence on the commonality and diversity of human degradation in the face of capitalist modernity, and his historically specific conception of the “counter-movement” enable a decidedly non-presentist, non-triumphalist, and non-hierarchical narrative of the genesis and development of the modern present.

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Against Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism: International Relations, Historical Sociology and Political Marxism

Duzgun

2018

J Int Relat Dev

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Property, Geopolitics, and Eurocentrism: The “Great Divergence” and the Ottoman Empire

Cited by 8 publications

References 46 publications

The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique

The transition debate in Brazilian history: The bourgeois paradigm and its critique

Karl Polanyi against postcolonial theory: beyond Eurocentric anti-Eurocentrism

Against Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism: International Relations, Historical Sociology and Political Marxism

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