Worlding, Ontological Politics and the Possibility of a Decolonial IR
Worlding, Ontological Politics and the Possibility of a Decolonial IR
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10.1177/0305829817702446
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2017-04
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D. Blaney;Arlene B Tickner
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作者：
D. Blaney;Arlene B Tickner
本文认为，对表象实践和认识论的关注，尽管对于扩展国际关系作为一个研究领域的边界是重要的，但对于处理世界政治中的差异来说是不够的，在世界政治中，本体论冲突也在发挥作用。我们认为，作为“本体论转向”的后来者，IR尚未系统地接触到殖民现代性引入的“单一世界”逻辑及其对另类世界的消解。除了探讨批评学者如何关注差异的‘他者’和‘世俗’的本体论问题，我们还批评了规范建构主义的本体论暴力，以及全球IR项目提供的唯一有限的机会。借鉴科学技术研究、人类学、政治生态学、女权主义立场和非殖民主义思想的文献，我们考察了本体论政治对于颠覆殖民宇宙、培育多元和创造非殖民主义科学的潜力。文章最后谈到了这对国际关系可能意味着什么。
This article argues that attention to representational practices and epistemology, however important for expanding the boundaries of International Relations as a field of study, has been insufficient for dealing with difference in world politics, where ontological conflicts are also at play. We suggest that IR, as a latecomer to the ‘ontological turn’, has yet to engage systematically with ‘singular world’ logics introduced by colonial modernity and their effacement of alternative worlds. In addition to exploring how even critical scholars concerned with the ‘othering’ and ‘worlding’ of difference sidestep issues of ontology, we critique the ontological violence performed by norms constructivism and the only limited openings offered by the Global IR project. Drawing on literatures from science and technology studies, anthropology, political ecology, standpoint feminism and decolonial thought, we examine the potentials of a politics of ontology for unmaking the colonial universe, cultivating the pluriverse, and crafting a decolonial science. The article ends with an idea of what this might mean for International Relations.