Dialogue between Whom? The Role of the West/ Non-West Distinction in Promoting Global Dialogue in IR

2011/03/22 by Kimberly Hutchings
Social Sciences · #Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture #Global Peace and Security Dynamics

paper · doi:10.1177/0305829811401941

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Abstract

There is a politics to the West/non-West distinction that is bound up with predominant models for dialogue in IR; rethinking these models of dialogue implies a new politics, and therefore also, I will suggest, a move away from the West/non-West binary as a way of characterising the participants in dialogic exchange oriented towards the expansive transformation of disciplinary imaginaries.

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