The Global South and its Perspectives: Expanding the Frontiers of International Relations
Stating that IR needs to de-Westernize is not something new, and many different pathways have appeared as alternatives to proceed in this endeavor. We discuss these pathways with a special focus on Global IR (GIR), an initiative or movement first proposed by Amitav Acharya. We present the main ideas...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD) |
| Repositorio: | Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/16529 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/moncoes/article/view/16529 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sul Global RI Globais Global IR Teoria das Relações Internacionais Teoria de Relações Internacionais. Sul Global. Brasil. Sur Global RRII globales Teoria de Relaciones Internacionales Global South International Relations Theory |
| Sumario: | Stating that IR needs to de-Westernize is not something new, and many different pathways have appeared as alternatives to proceed in this endeavor. We discuss these pathways with a special focus on Global IR (GIR), an initiative or movement first proposed by Amitav Acharya. We present the main ideas of Global IR to discuss why this initiative to pluralize the discipline via reformism and subsumption is valuable. We also show the current limitations of Global IR, mainly centered on who is producing “GIR content” and who has access to it. That brings us to our main argument: the often overlooked issue of material conditions to produce innovative science and how it can hamper even the most well-intended attempt to de-Westernize a discipline. We finalize using the Brazilian case to show how economic and political issues are linked to the flourishment or decay of a national scholarship. |
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