Description
What does it mean to think about contemporary global challenges from a decentred perspective? International Studies scholarship has become increasingly more interdisciplinary and multifocal. Global environmental, security, and health challenges have posed new pragmatic and ontological questions to the field of International Studies, especially as they have required comprehensive ways of thinking, taking stock of existing ontological and epistemic limitations. Yet, how do we know these global challenges? How do we study and know globality? How is certain knowledge of world politics constituted within specific, multilayered, power configurations? Can an interdisciplinary outlook by contributors from around the globe affect our understanding of these challenges? In the face of contemporary challenges to capitalist development, we place the study of global dynamics in context and perspective. We define decentring as a way of deconstructing the presumed universality of Western-centred notions of global politics. To answer the main questions animating this project we define what a decentering approach to global challenges entails by firstly determining its key features: a rethinking of geographies and spaces; a rethinking of topics and loci of public attention – what has so far been presented as “global challenges”; a rethinking of agency – global challenges for whom?; a deconstruction of traditional and sedimented epistemic underpinnings.| Period | 11 Oct 2023 |
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| Held at | Shanghai University- Baoshan Campus, China |
| Degree of Recognition | International |