Epistemological Racism: Insurrection and Insertion of Knowledge in the Hierarchy of International Relations
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Epistemological racism, Westphalia, International RelationsAbstract
It is recurrently stated that the historical landmark of international relations – as an object of study – takes place in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia, when understanding the genesis of modern nation-states. Despite the undeniable legacy left by the Westphalian logic and its usefulness for the field of International Relations (IR) studies, the centrality given to this episode configures a fracture point in the history of IR. From then on, the world was divided between the States that were part of the treaty and the others that were excluded from this rationality of constructed modernity. That said, this article is organized into two sections: the first part explains how the process of European/Western hierarchical formation in the discipline began. Therefore, in the second section, Ibn Khaldun's conceptual perspectives are presented and how his contributions cross International Relations. In this way, attention is drawn to the importance of a movement of insurrection and epistemological insertion in order to provide a break in the maintenance of the hierarchy of scientific-academic knowledge that had been built under racist assumptions in International Relations.
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