Subduing Globalization: The Challenge of the Indigenization Movement
Editor(s)
Richard Grant; John R. Short
Abstract
More than two decades ago, Stanley Hoffmann described the discipline of international relations (IR) as a peculiarly “American social science” (Hoffmann, 1977). He maintained that, traditionally, analysis of the international system had been equated with the study of US foreign policy — not surprising us, given that scholars residing in the United States do much of the theorizing in IR. Ironically, however, IR scholars continue to view their discipline as a “global” social science within which theories and research methodologies can supposedly travel from one culture and location to others with little difficulty. Of late, postmodernist IR theorists have questioned the notion of IR as a “global” social science, insisting that all scholarship is radically situated within cultural and temporal frameworks. Postmodernists claim that there is no neutral vantage point or absolute standard of scientific objectivity from which scholars can observe human behavior.
Recommended Citation
Boroujerdi, M. (2004). Subduing Globalization: The Challenge of the Indigenization Movement. Globalization and the Margins, pp. 39-49. Springer.
Department(s)
History and Political Science
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English
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Publication Date
2004
