Challenging International Relations' Conceptual Constraints: The International and Everyday Life across Borders in Southern Africa/Uluslararasi Iliskilerin Kavramsal Kisitlamalarina Meydan Okumak: Güney Afrika'da Sinirlarin Karsi Tarafinda Uluslararasi Olan ve Gündelik Yasam
One of the critiques of International Relations (IR) is that the discipline's discursive boundaries are particularly rigid and continue to be shaped and maintained by dominant Western-centric concepts and discourses. This paper explores the apparent dichotomy between how concepts like 'the...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Uluslararasi Iliskiler / International Relations 2021-06, Vol.18 (70), p.121 |
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Zusammenfassung: | One of the critiques of International Relations (IR) is that the discipline's discursive boundaries are particularly rigid and continue to be shaped and maintained by dominant Western-centric concepts and discourses. This paper explores the apparent dichotomy between how concepts like 'the international' are interpreted by IR scholars and the experiences of ordinary people on which these concepts are imposed. How people engage with borders will be used as an illustration, with borders being regarded by IR scholars as constituting important boundaries that are essential to the field's understanding of the world as consisting of neatly separated sovereign, territorial states. Two examples that highlight the arbitrary nature of national borders in Africa draw these assumptions into question and suggest that defining what does or does not constitute the international is, in reality, much more complex than suggested by the theoretical abstractions found in standard IR texts. Keywords: The International, Africa, Borders, Everyday Life, Chewa Uluslararasi Iliskilere yöneltilen elestirilerden biri, disiplinin söylemsel sinirlarinin bilhassa kati oldugu ve Bati merkezli egemen kavramlar ve söylemler tarafindan sekillendirilmeye ve korunmaya devam ediyor oldugudur. Bu makale, 'uluslararasi' gibi kavramlarin uluslararasi ilisikiler alanindaki bilim insanlari tarafindan nasil yorumlandigi ile bu kavramlarin dayatildigi siradan insanlarin deneyimleri arasindaki açik ikilemi arastirmaktadir. Insanlarin sinirlarla nasil iliski kurduklari, disiplinin dünyayi özenle birbirinden ayrilmis egemen, teritoryal devletler olarak ele alan anlayisina esas teskil eden ve uluslararasi iliskiler akademisyenleri tarafindan önemli kurucu hudutlar olarak ele alinan sinirlar baglaminda, bir örnek olarak kullanilacaktir. Afrika'daki ulusal sinirlarin keyfi dogasini vurgulayan iki örnek bu varsayimlari sorgulamakta ve neyin uluslararasini olusturup olusturmadigini tanimlamanin, aslinda standart uluslararasi iliskiler metinlerinde göründügünden çok daha karmasik oldugunu göstermektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Uluslararasi Olan, Afrika, Sinirlar, Gündelik Yasam, Chewa |
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ISSN: | 1304-7310 1304-7310 |
DOI: | 10.33458/uidergisi.985971 |