Mining the past: The case for historical narratives in global justice theorizing

IF 1.1 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Huw L Williams
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Debates on global justice, it is claimed, can be enriched in important ways by more explicitly historicizing our approach and using historical narratives, stories and debates to expand our conceptual vocabulary and theoretical purview. The claim is illustrated through a specific analysis of Paul Robeson’s relationship with the Welsh Miners. It is argued such a historical turn, grounded in a wider interdisciplinary engagement with subjects such as cultural studies may see at least three key benefits accrue in terms of our understanding of the field. Firstly, it can uncover philosophical and theoretical ideas and alternatives so far unconsidered; secondly, it can generate a shift in the empirical frame that accounts for and seeks to identify means for “real world” political change; lastly, it should encourage us to question the in/out dichotomy at the heart of the western debate, which projects global injustice as being “out there.”
挖掘过去:全球正义理论中的历史叙事案例
据称,通过更明确地将我们的方法历史化,并利用历史叙事、故事和辩论来扩展我们的概念词汇和理论视野,可以以重要的方式丰富关于全球正义的辩论。我们通过对保罗-罗伯逊与威尔士矿工关系的具体分析来说明这一主张。我们认为,这种历史转向立足于更广泛的跨学科参与,如文化研究,它至少可以为我们对该领域的理解带来三大好处。首先,它可以发掘出迄今为止尚未被考虑的哲学和理论观点及替代方案;其次,它可以使解释和寻求确定 "现实世界 "政治变革手段的经验框架发生转变;最后,它应鼓励我们质疑西方辩论的核心问题--"内部 "与 "外部 "的二分法,这种二分法将全球不公正视为 "外部 "的问题。
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