The Place of the Region in IR

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Autor(a) principal: Oliveira,Jessica da Silva C de
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Contexto Internacional
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-85292017000100097
Resumo: Abstract This article focuses on the problem of regarding regions as secondary features of the international/global dimension, and on the prevailing geopolitical imagery for thinking about and arguing with regions in IR. However, in contrast with the supposedly value-free vocabulary utilised for discussing regions in IR, the act of defining them in cartographic terms, or as a middle ground between national and international politics, is always a political one. In this article, I explore the politics of scaling in respect of regions and regional politics, and suggest that, if regions are understood as artifacts instead of self-evident entities fitting into a neat framework of levels, and disconnected from political struggles, this would assist the analysis and discussion of regions in theory as well as highlight other dynamics surrounding the complex and varied political projects, geographies and subjectivities that could be characterised as ‘regional’.
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title The Place of the Region in IR
spellingShingle The Place of the Region in IR
Oliveira,Jessica da Silva C de
Region
Levels
Scaling
International Security
International Political Economy
Geopolitics
title_short The Place of the Region in IR
title_full The Place of the Region in IR
title_fullStr The Place of the Region in IR
title_full_unstemmed The Place of the Region in IR
title_sort The Place of the Region in IR
author Oliveira,Jessica da Silva C de
author_facet Oliveira,Jessica da Silva C de
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Oliveira,Jessica da Silva C de
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Region
Levels
Scaling
International Security
International Political Economy
Geopolitics
topic Region
Levels
Scaling
International Security
International Political Economy
Geopolitics
description Abstract This article focuses on the problem of regarding regions as secondary features of the international/global dimension, and on the prevailing geopolitical imagery for thinking about and arguing with regions in IR. However, in contrast with the supposedly value-free vocabulary utilised for discussing regions in IR, the act of defining them in cartographic terms, or as a middle ground between national and international politics, is always a political one. In this article, I explore the politics of scaling in respect of regions and regional politics, and suggest that, if regions are understood as artifacts instead of self-evident entities fitting into a neat framework of levels, and disconnected from political struggles, this would assist the analysis and discussion of regions in theory as well as highlight other dynamics surrounding the complex and varied political projects, geographies and subjectivities that could be characterised as ‘regional’.
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