Thinking through 1492

IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2236713
AutoresJulia Costa López (0000-0002-1155-4987, University of Groningen, autor de correspondencia), Zeynep Gulsah Capan (0000-0001-8949-3080, University of Groningen), Ayşe Zarakol (0000-0002-1236-3226, University of Cambridge), Atsuko Watanabe (0000-0002-9170-4948, Kanazawa University), Adhemar Mercado (0000-0002-7028-0779, University of Groningen)
Año2024
Volumen18
Número4
Páginasolae032
Fecha de publicación2024-09-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olae032
OpenAlexW4403137732
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas54

This Collective Discussion aims to open up space for an international political sociology of the production of historical knowledge that interrogates the politics around benchmark dates and what becomes knowable and unknowable through them. Specifically, it examines 1492 as a historiographical device through which to unpack how the discipline of IR knows history. 1492 presents a relevant case for this interrogation, for it is central for the historical narratives of a variety of approaches. In this sense, the different contributions do not seek to recover an alternative, 'better' history of 1492, but rather to explore its politics of knowledge production: what types of histories it makes visible, what types it precludes, and in what way it partakes in the reproduction of specific hierarchies of knowledge and the power structures that operate through them. In doing so, the Collective Discussion makes visible - and thus opens up for discussion - the historiographical operations performed by periodization and benchmark dating in IR, pointing to a way forward for an international political sociology of knowledge production in the discipline

Epistemology · Historiography · International relations · Interrogation · Literature · Narrative · Periodization · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of knowledge · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Global Security and Public Health · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance