International Relations and its epistemicides
The article argues that the discipline of International Relations is complicit in the colonial project and, in this sense, takes part in the historical process of epistemicide. Both realist and liberal perspectives in International Relations reify a “single story” narrated though as universal. Throu...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD) |
| Repositório: | Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/11552 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/moncoes/article/view/11552 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | epistemicide coloniality state of nature Epistemicídio. Colonialidade. Estado de natureza. |
| Resumo: | The article argues that the discipline of International Relations is complicit in the colonial project and, in this sense, takes part in the historical process of epistemicide. Both realist and liberal perspectives in International Relations reify a “single story” narrated though as universal. Through the myths mobilized by the discipline, such as the myths of the “state of nature” and the “social contract”, the text aims at putting light on its Eurocentric trajectory, calling attention to its constitutive forms of violence and exclusions. The article, inspired by decolonial perspectives, concludes by emphasizing the importance of opening of the discipline to other knowledges and cosmologies, that have been traditionally silenced and inferiorized, and that can contribute to destabilize the discipline’s racist foundations |
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