Pub Date : 2019-11-11DOI: 10.4324/9780429507724-41
Sukanya Banerjee
The thesis aims to address criticisms of cosmopolitanism that characterise it as an elite discourse, by exploring the role that it might play in Third World resistance movements. In doing so, it complicates the landscape of international normative theory, which has traditionally been mapped as a debate between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism. Part I of the thesis argues that cosmopolitanism and communitarianism can function as languages in which First and Third World states respectively justify exercises of power that impede the self-determination of Third World societies. These discourses of power frame the condition of postcoloniality, which might be understood – borrowing the terminology of International Society theorists – as an entrapment of Third World societies between „coercive solidarism‟ and „authoritarian pluralism‟. A normative worldview committed to enhancing the scope for self-determination of such societies must be critical of the production of both external and internal environments that are hostile to the enjoyment of self-determination by Third World peoples. Part II of the thesis explores the political challenges of sustaining such a critique by studying four theorists of resistance who perceive themselves as manoeuvring between hostile external and internal environments. It analyses the political thought of Rabindranath Tagore and Edward Said, who were both leading figures of anti-colonial nationalist movements but also fierce critics of nationalism. It also studies the activism of two leaders in the field of „anti-globalisation‟ protest – Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas in Mexico and Professor Nanjundaswamy of the Karnataka State Farmers‟ Association in India – who struggle against both national elites and global capital. Part II concludes that if resistance in the condition of postcoloniality must grapple simultaneously with both a hostile „outside‟ and „inside‟, it must speak in mixed registers of universalism and particularity. Cumulatively, the thesis demonstrates that the language of common humanity operates in ways that are both oppressive and emancipatory, just as the language of community is a source of both repression and refuge. Normative theory that does not seek to hold both in tension fails the needs of our non-ideal world.
本文旨在通过探讨世界主义在第三世界抵抗运动中可能发挥的作用，来解决对世界主义的批评，这些批评将世界主义描述为一种精英话语。在这样做的过程中，它使国际规范理论的前景变得复杂，传统上，国际规范理论被描绘为世界主义和社群主义之间的辩论。论文的第一部分认为，世界主义和社群主义可以作为第一世界和第三世界国家分别为阻碍第三世界社会自决的权力行使辩护的语言。这些关于权力的论述构成了后殖民状态的框架，借用国际社会理论家的术语，这可能被理解为第三世界社会在“强制性团结主义”和“威权多元主义”之间的陷阱。一种致力于扩大这些社会自决范围的规范世界观，必须对产生不利于第三世界人民享有自决的外部和内部环境持批判态度。论文的第二部分通过研究四位认为自己在敌对的外部和内部环境之间操纵的抵抗理论家，探讨了维持这种批判的政治挑战。本文分析了泰戈尔和萨义德的政治思想，他们都是反殖民民族主义运动的领军人物，同时也是民族主义的激烈批评者。它还研究了“反全球化”抗议领域两位领导人的行动主义——墨西哥萨帕塔的副指挥官马科斯(Subcomandante Marcos)和印度卡纳塔克邦农民协会(Karnataka State Farmers Association)的南琼达斯瓦米(Nanjundaswamy)教授——他们既反对国家精英，也反对全球资本。第二部分的结论是，如果在后殖民条件下的抵抗必须同时与敌对的“外部”和“内部”进行斗争，那么它必须在普遍主义和特殊性的混合记录中发言。综上所述，这篇论文表明，共同人性的语言以压迫和解放的方式运作，正如社区的语言既是压迫的来源，也是庇护的来源。规范性理论如果不寻求将两者置于紧张状态，就无法满足我们非理想世界的需要。
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Pub Date : 2019-11-11DOI: 10.4324/9780429507724-29
Carolyn Betensky
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Pub Date : 2019-11-11DOI: 10.4324/9780429507724-44
Jesse. Taylor
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