Tansel, C.B. orcid.org/0000-0001-7586-459X (2015) Deafening silence? Marxism, international historical sociology and the spectre of Eurocentrism. European Journal of International Relations, 21 (1). pp. 76-100. ISSN 1354-0661
Abstract
Approaching the centenary of its establishment as a formal discipline, International Relations today challenges the ahistorical and aspatial frameworks advanced by the theories of earlier luminaries. Yet, despite a burgeoning body of literature built on the transdisciplinary efforts bridging International Relations and its long-separated nomothetic relatives, the new and emerging conceptual frameworks have not been able to effectively overcome the challenge posed by the ‘non-West’. The recent wave of international historical sociology has highlighted possible trajectories to problematise the myopic and unipolar conceptions of the international system; however, the question of Eurocentrism still lingers in the developing research programmes. This article interjects into the ongoing historical materialist debate in international historical sociology by: (1) conceptually and empirically challenging the rigid boundaries of the extant approaches; and (2) critically assessing the postulations of recent theorising on ‘the international’, capitalist states-system/geopolitics and uneven and combined development. While the significance of the present contributions in international historical sociology should not be understated, it is argued that the ‘Eurocentric cage’ still occupies a dominant ontological position which essentially silences ‘connected histories’ and conceals the role of inter-societal relations in the making of the modern states-system and capitalist geopolitics.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in European Journal of International Relations. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Capitalism; Eurocentrism; historical materialism; historical sociology; International Relations; international theory; Marx; Marxism; uneven and combined development |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2016 15:51 |
Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2018 07:25 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066113514779 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1354066113514779 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97322 |