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The Self and the Other in IR: Lessons from Anthropology

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Despite increasing calls for a geo-epistemological diversification of the discipline, IR’s scholarship has remained disturbingly uninternational. While the list of gatekeeping mechanisms is long, this chapter focuses first on the way in which even critical IR scholars conceptualize non-Western IR as an ‘Other’, thereby narrowing the possibility of its inclusion as an integral component of the discipline. In order to propose an alternative approach to diversification, the process by which the discipline of Anthropology has confronted similar challenges is analyzed in a second step, and key lessons for IR are carved out. Last, the chapter inquires into the likelihood of these lessons finding an application in IR.

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    Alina Kleinn

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Kleinn, A. (2016). The Self and the Other in IR: Lessons from Anthropology. In: Peters, I., Wemheuer-Vogelaar, W. (eds) Globalizing International Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57410-7_2

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