IR in Dialogue … but Can We Change the Subjects? A Typology of Decolonising Strategies for the Study of World Politics

• Published in: Millennium Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 781 - 803
• Main Author: Sabaratnam, Meera
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2011; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Academic disciplines; Conceptualization; Decolonization; Discourse; Ethnocentrism; Europe; Historiography; Intellectuals; International Relations; International relations theory; Mozambique; Mythology; Myths; Peace; Pluralism; Politics; Postcolonialism; Professions; Research methodology; Social problems; Social theories; Strategies; Subaltern identities; Subjectivity; Typological analysis; Typology; Values; World politics; Eurocentrism; liberal peace; IR theory; postcolonialism; subjecthood; decolonisation

In an effort to reconceive the conduct of ‘dialogue’ within world politics, it is necessary for us to find new subject-positions from which to speak. This article develops a typology of six distinctive intellectual strategies through which ‘decolonising’ approaches to social theory can help rethink...