Reality-congruence, emancipatory politics and situated knowledge in International Relations: a process sociological perspective

Saramago, André

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“…It entails calls for the need to rethink the place of 'human beings' in International Relations (Jacobi andFreyberg-Inan, 2012, 2015) and attempts to provide historically grounded discussions of key critical concepts previously discussed in a philosophical mode (Hoseason, 2021). A trend can thus be identified towards the development of a critical international theory that, while not dismissing the importance of philosophical inquiry, forefronts historically grounded and practice-oriented approaches that seek to disclose the emancipatory potential in everyday political and social life (Saramago, 2020).…”

Section: Towards a Historical-sociological Approach To Grand Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alternatively, process sociology seeks the development of a historical-sociological approach that 'safeguards against the intrusion of heteronomous evaluations' and is rather structured by 'autonomous evaluations', that is, by analytical and normative categories that arise from the detached analysis of actual empirical history (Saramago, 2015(Saramago, , 2020. It is in this context that process sociology has also been described as 'postphilosophical' (Kilminster, 1998(Kilminster, , 2007(Kilminster, , 2011.…”

Section: Towards a Historical-sociological Approach To Grand Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Post-Eurocentric grand narratives in critical international theory

Saramago

2021

European Journal of International Relations

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Critical international theory is confronted with a fundamental ‘problem of orientation’, whose answer defines its capacity to critically analyse world politics. This problem derives from how the capacity for critique is inherently connected with the need to, at least partially, escape time- and space-bound points of view and attain a more cosmopolitan perspective that permits an assessment of the regressive/progressive tendencies of the human past, present and possible futures. The search for this cosmopolitan standpoint of orientation has frequently led to a reliance on grand narratives of human development from the perspective of which critical orientation can be disclosed. However, grand narratives themselves have frequently relied on metaphysical categories and stadial conceptions of history that reproduce forms of Eurocentrism that ultimately undermine their adequacy as means of orientation. A fundamental suspicion of grand narratives and need for ‘reflexivity’ that discloses forms of exclusion embedded in theoretical perspectives have thus become common topics in the field. However, this growing concern with reflexivity is also associated with a tendency for greater philosophical abstraction and a growing gap between theory and practice. This article considers the role of grand narratives in critical international theory and explores the possibility of post-Eurocentric and post-philosophical grand narratives that provide an alternative answer to the problem of orientation and recover the link between theory and practice. With reference to recent developments in the field, namely, the work of Richard Devetak and Andrew Linklater, the article considers the possibility of a historical–sociological approach to grand narratives.

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Section: Towards a Historical-sociological Approach To Grand Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%