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Discipline and power: knowledge of China in political science
- Source :
- Critical Asian Studies. 49:501-522
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- Mainstream political science treats China as an anomaly that has not followed the “right” path of development, that is, a path that confirms the worldview, normative values, knowledge, and expectations of a Euromodern origin. This essay identifies inherent biases in the discipline and shows how the dominant disciplinary approach to Chinese politics has largely remained focused on validating questionable political-scientific tenets. A tentative proposal is offered for intellectual steps toward more openness and efficacy in disciplinary knowledge production and consumption. The argument is not about overcoming Eurocentrism by promoting Chinese exceptionalism. On the contrary, it is political, and challenges the power of current organizing principles of knowledge in search of a more accurate and cogent understanding of Chinese and global politics.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
0507 social and economic geography
JA Political science (General)
050701 cultural studies
Global politics
0506 political science
Exceptionalism
Politics
Argument
Political science
050602 political science & public administration
Openness to experience
Normative
Social science
Positive economics
Eurocentrism
Discipline
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14726033 and 14672715
- Volume :
- 49
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Critical Asian Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9062c4a910c16f66184b3b072932a088