Historical Sociology and World History (eBook, PDF)

Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée
Redaktion: Anievas, Alexander; Matin, Kamran

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Produktbeschreibung

The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical sociology. It has been critically and creatively deployed in two main areas: the provision of a sociological foundation to international theory overcoming the chronic schism between 'sociological' and 'geopolitical' modes of enquiry; and, relatedly, in superseding prevailing Eurocentric approaches in the social sciences. This volume is the first to provide a sustained reflection on the idea of uneven and combined development as the intellectual basis for a non-Eurocentric social theory of 'the international'. It does so through a series of empirically rich and theoretically informed analyses of socio-historical change, political transformation, and intersocietal conflict over the longue durée. The volume thereby aims to demonstrate the unique potentials of uneven and combined development in overcoming IR and historical sociology's shared inability to theorize the interactive and multilinear character of development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881860813
• Artikelnr.: 74833690

Autorenporträt

Alexander Anievas is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge where he also obtained his PhD. He has published in various journals including European Journal of International Relations, Politics, Review of International Studies, International Politics and Capital & Class. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945 (2014) and co-author of How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (2015). He has also edited, co-edited and contributed to Marxism and World Politics (2010), Race and Racism in International Relations ( 2014), Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics (2014), and The Longue Durée of the Far Right (2014). He is a member of the editorial collective Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. Kamran Matin is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University, a management committee member of Centre for Advanced International Theory, and a co-founder and co-director of Sussex Uneven and Combined Development Working Group. His publications on historical sociology and premodern state-formation, postcolonial theory, political Islam, and modern Iranian history have appeared in European Journal of International Relations, Journal of international Relations and Development, and Middle East Critique. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements / 1. Introduction, Alexander Anievas and Kamran Matin / 2.
Uneven and Combined Development: 'The International' in Theory and History,
Justin Rosenberg / 3. The Conditions for the Emergence of Uneven and
Combined Development, Neil Davidson / 4. The Uneven, Combined, and
Intersocietal Dimensions of Korean State Formation and Consolidation over
the Longue Durée: 300-1900 CE, Owen Miller / 5. Combination as 'Foreign
Policy': The Inter-Societal Origins of the Ottoman Empire, Kerem
Nisancioglu / 6. Revisiting the Transformation of the 19th Century and the
'Eastern Question': Uneven and Combined Development and the Ottoman Steppe,
Jamie Allinson / 7. Asian Sources of British Imperial Power: The Role of
the Mysorean Rocket in the Opium War, Luke Cooper / 8. Rejecting the
'Staples' Thesis and Re-centering Migration: A Comparative Analysis of
'Late Development' in Canada and Argentina, Jessica Evans / 9. Navigating
Uneven and Combined Development: Britain's Africa Policy in Historical
Perspective, Wil