Nordin, AHM and Smith, GM orcid.org/0000-0003-2521-0066 (2019) Relating self and other in Chinese and Western thought. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32 (5). pp. 636-653. ISSN 0955-7571
Abstract
Recent debates in International Relations seek to decolonise the discipline by focusing on relationality between self and other. This article examines the possibilities for preserving a particular type of otherness: ‘radical otherness’ or ‘alterity’. Such otherness can provide a bulwark against domination and colonialism: there is always something truly other which cannot be assimilated. However, two problems arise. First, if otherness is truly inaccessible, how can self relate to it? Does otherness undermine relationality? Second, can we talk about otherness without making it the same? Is the very naming of otherness a new form of domination? This article draws out and explores the possibilities for radical otherness in Sinophone and Anglophone relational theorising. It addresses the difficulties presented by the need for a sense of radical otherness on the one hand, and the seeming impossibility of either detecting it, or relating to it, on the other. By constructing a typology of four accounts of otherness, it finds that the identification and preservation of radical otherness poses significant problems for relationality. Radical otherness makes relationality between self and other impossible, but without radical otherness there is a danger of domination and assimilation. This is common to both Sinophone and Anglophone endeavours.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Department of Politics and International Studies. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cambridge Review on International Affairs on 20/3/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09557571.2019.1576160 |
Keywords: | Self; Other; Sinophone; Anglophone; Alterity; Realtionality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2019 12:38 |
Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2020 02:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09557571.2019.1576160 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141727 |