Making Machines
Unlikely Resonances between Realist and Postcolonial Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2236800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kavi Joseph Abraham (0000-0002-4885-2830, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 221-238 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ips/olx009 |
| OpenAlex | W2610170346 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
In recent years, revisionist readings of midcentury realists have permitted accommodation with research traditions typically at odds with realist sensibilities, including constructivist approaches and critical theories of International Relations (IR). In this essay, I amplify this literature, arguing that there are unexpected resonances to be found between realist and postcolonial thinking. Specifically, I show how a spiritual affinity to difference is embedded in a shared critique of liberal ways of violence and conceptions of history. In order to make these connections, I first outline a particular strategy of argumentation, one that substantially differs from the extant revisionist literature. Foregrounding an anti-imperial politics, I reflexively consider this argument as a political practice to confront the contemporary dominance of liberal imperial formations. As such, I theoretically work on the contingent connections between realist and postcolonial lines of thought neither to establish a synthetic analytical framework nor to show how classical realists were proto-postcolonial theorists, but rather to make a “counter-imperial machine,” to produce a political alliance that draws minor traditions in realism toward postcolonial critiques of liberal imperialism.
Alliance · Argument (complex analysis) · Argumentation theory · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
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Silencing the Past
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Realism as Critical Theory
Liberalism in Empire
Capitalism and Christianity, American Style
Man, the State, and War
Tensions of Empire
The Sexual Contract
Liberal Strategies of Exclusion
All Hail to the Chief
Realism and the Constructivist Challenge
Inequality and Theorizing in International Relations
Re-Assessing the "Power of Power Politics" Thesis
Reclaiming the critical dimension of realism
International Relations and the challenges of global communication
Realism and the Left
The False Promise of International Institutions
Realist Constructivism
The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine
The Triumph of Anti-liberalism? Reconciling Radicalism to Realism in International Relations Theory
International Relations in the US Academy1
Morgenthau in Context
Portrait of the realist as a historian
The Imperial Peace
The formation of American exceptional identities
A pragmatist vocation for International Relations
Power in International Politics
Political Realism and Political Idealism
Why Hans Morgenthau Was Not a Critical Theorist (and Why Contemporary IR Realists Should Care)
Kant, Liberalism, and War
On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty
The Realist Gambit
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