The Conceptual Limits of Uneven and Combined Development and the Exterior of the International

This paper critiques the anti-Eurocentric claims made by scholars’ applying Leon Trotsky’s idea of uneven and combined development (UC&D’s) to the field of international relations. It draws upon Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation, and the case of the Sámi people to illustrate U&CD’s p...

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Main Author: Oksanen, Aslak-Antti
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
uneven and combined development
International Relations
historical materialism
eurocentrism
Sámi
territoriality
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1983/93d0b561-30cd-4c72-9037-ccbcdb881487
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/93d0b561-30cd-4c72-9037-ccbcdb881487
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Summary:This paper critiques the anti-Eurocentric claims made by scholars’ applying Leon Trotsky’s idea of uneven and combined development (UC&D’s) to the field of international relations. It draws upon Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation, and the case of the Sámi people to illustrate U&CD’s problematic reliance on the concept of development and insufficient understanding of territoriality

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