Reflexive Solidarity: Toward a Broadening of What It Means to be “Scientific” in Global IR Knowledge

Authors : Yongsoo EUN

Pages : 107-122

Doi:10.20991/allazimuth.1024925

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Publication Date : 2022-01-19

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This article shows that the problem of “West-centrism” in the study of International Relations insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(IR); is synonymous with the problem of the dominance of positivism, a particular version of science that originated in the modern West. How can we open up this double parochialism in IR? The article calls for reflexive solidarity as a way out. This indicates that on-going Global IR projects need to revamp their geography-orientated approaches and instead seek solidarity with other marginalised scholars irrespective of their geographical locations or geocultural backgrounds to build wide avenues in which not only positivist insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(i.e., causal-explanatory); inferences but also normative theorising and ethnographically attuned approaches are all accepted as different but equally scientific ways of knowing in IR. As a useful way of going about this reflexive solidarity, this article suggests autobiography.
Keywords : Global IR, non Western IR, positivism, science, reflexivity, solidarity, autobiography