Blurring Borders: Investigating the Western/Global South Identity of Human Security

IF 1.4 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Alternatives Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI:10.1177/0304375420929586
Maiken Gelardi
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Abstract

In the globalizing international relations (IR) debate, the “West” and “Global South” have conventionally been presented as fundamentally different categories. This has disguised any interconnectedness between the two categories and variation within them. What does this mean for the quest for “Global South theorizing?” In order to address this binary logic in the globalizing IR literature, I analyze the case of human security as an example of Global South theorizing. First, I disentangle the Western/Global South origins and inflection of the human security concept and find that there is Global South agency related to its conceptual development, but also Western inflections. Second, I examine and compare the apparent rejection of the concept in two regions of the Global South—Southeast Asia and Latin America—and find both similarities and differences in their disinterest in engaging with the concept. Curiously, the similarities lie in the positionality of these regions and their difference to the West. In this way, the article points to the danger of using these categories in a manner that reemphasizes binary logics and their constitutive effects, and it exposes the complexity regarding what we consider Global South and Global South theorizing.
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模糊的边界:调查人类安全的西方/全球南方特征
在全球化国际关系的辩论中,“西方”和“全球南方”通常被视为根本不同的类别。这掩盖了这两个类别之间的任何相互联系以及它们之间的差异。这对寻求“全球南方理论化”意味着什么?为了在全球化的IR文献中解决这种二元逻辑,我以人类安全为例分析了全球南方理论。首先,我理清了人类安全概念的西方/全球南方起源和变化,发现全球南方机构与其概念发展有关,但也有西方的变化。其次,我研究并比较了全球南部两个地区——东南亚和拉丁美洲——对这一概念的明显拒绝,发现他们对参与这一概念不感兴趣,这既有相似之处,也有不同之处。奇怪的是,这些地区的相似之处在于它们的位置以及与西方的不同。通过这种方式,文章指出了以重新强调二元逻辑及其构成效应的方式使用这些类别的危险,并暴露了我们所认为的全球南方和全球南方理论的复杂性。
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Alternatives INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-
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期刊介绍: A peer-reviewed journal, Alternatives explores the possibilities of new forms of political practice and identity under increasingly global conditions. Specifically, the editors focus on the changing relationships between local political practices and identities and emerging forms of global economy, culture, and polity. Published in association with the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (India).
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