Avatars of Eurocentrism in international political economy textbooks
The case of the Middle East and North Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7973539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Baumann (0000-0003-0100-1841) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 439-453 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02633957211054739 |
| OpenAlex | W3210887034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 47 |
The project to decolonise the curriculum revolves around rethinking margin and centre of the discipline. To the extent that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is at the margin of international political economy (IPE), it is the ideal entry point to decolonise the curriculum. I conduct a summative content analysis of the six most commonly used IPE textbooks. To what extent do they reproduce or challenge Eurocentric tropes in their treatment of MENA? The region is largely absent from IPE textbooks, suggesting it is accorded little agency in the making of the global political economy. To the extent that it is ‘brought in’, it is ‘ghettoised’ in a specialist chapter. A qualitative content analysis suggests the authors avoid overt orientalism but exceptionalise the region as a failure with too little democracy and economic growth and too much war. They acknowledge the role of continued colonialism in these failures but also deny agency of the colonised. They miss an opportunity to de-provincialise the Middle East by fostering ‘ecologies of knowledge’. The article provides an analytical framework for research on how IPE textbooks treat other world regions and of syllabi
Agency (philosophy · Bureaucracy · Curriculum · Democracy · Economics · Economy · Eurocentrism · Middle East · Orientalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · History · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law
International political economy and the state in the Middle East
Global International Relations and Worlding Beyond the West
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International Political Economy
Racializing Religion
Provincializing Westphalia
Narrating Crisis, Constructing Policy
Do the Left-Out Matter
T he N ew I vory T owers
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The Big Bangs of IR
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |