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Africa and International Relations in the 21st CenturyCollectivist Worldview: Its Challenge to International Relations

Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century: Collectivist Worldview: Its Challenge to... [This chapter unpacks individualist and collectivist worldviews in social science scholarship to show that many scholars in the English-speaking international relations (IR) community look at the world through the prism of individualism, which usually renders unheard the international experiences and voices of people in the global South. The neglect in IR theories and discourse of experiences and voices of the invisible majority undercuts our ability to gain a comprehensive understanding of global life. Key collectivist features of Africa’s IR are critically examined in the chapter and their ontological origins traced. The suggestion is that taking these collectivist features seriously and incorporating them into the analytical toolkits of IR would better enable scholars to gain a broader and deeper understanding of international affairs.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Africa and International Relations in the 21st CenturyCollectivist Worldview: Its Challenge to International Relations

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Cornelissen, Scarlett; Cheru, Fantu; Shaw, Timothy M.
Tieku, Thomas Kwasi
Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century — Nov 21, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-31384-6
Pages
36 –50
DOI
10.1057/9780230355743_3
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Abstract

[This chapter unpacks individualist and collectivist worldviews in social science scholarship to show that many scholars in the English-speaking international relations (IR) community look at the world through the prism of individualism, which usually renders unheard the international experiences and voices of people in the global South. The neglect in IR theories and discourse of experiences and voices of the invisible majority undercuts our ability to gain a comprehensive understanding of global life. Key collectivist features of Africa’s IR are critically examined in the chapter and their ontological origins traced. The suggestion is that taking these collectivist features seriously and incorporating them into the analytical toolkits of IR would better enable scholars to gain a broader and deeper understanding of international affairs.]

Published: Nov 21, 2015

Keywords: African State; International Relation; African Unity; International Life; Sovereign Rationality

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