Theory, change and the search for epistemological courage in shaping a new world order

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9936624
AutoresLarry A Swatuk (0000-0002-3066-8090, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada; Institute for Water Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume77
Fascículo3
Páginas396-413
Data de publicação2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00207020231156560
OpenAlexW4319791488
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas13

No matter how narrowly you focus your spatial or temporal lenses, you are bound to catch sight of multiple significant challenges to human community. Many of these challenges are shared, such as Covid-19, though their impacts on individuals and groups are felt unevenly. Some challenges are immediate and existential, such as the wars in Ukraine, Syria, and Yemen. Others, such as race, gender, caste, and class-based inequalities, are deeply embedded in social structures, providing privilege and persecution, and reward and oppression in unequal measures. And climate change, though slower moving, holds out the prospect of leading to total social collapse. How to make sense of these dramatic changes? This essay explores the adequacy of theories of IR and G/IPE in explaining the emergent world (dis)order. It argues that, whether orthodox or critical, theory must find a way to centre humanity within the biosphere if theory is to adequately inform practice

Caste · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanity · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Law · Philosophy