JS-38
De-Linking – a Counterstrategy to De-Westernization, De-Colonization, De-Globalization?
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC56 Historical Sociology (host committee)
RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Delinking as a counterstrategy in a structurally unequal world has featured prominently in different social science approaches to radical emancipatory politics, from dependency theory and world-systems analysis to decolonial thought. Understood as a political decision to establish self-sufficient economies in the core (Mies 1986), as self-reliance or autonomous development of the peripheries (Amin 1992), as anti- or deglobalization (Bello 2004), as a choice between dewesternization and decolonization (Mignolo 2007) or, more recently, as a comprehensive move to “depatriarchalise, de-racialise, de-tribalise, decolonise, de-imperialise and democratise” (Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2017), the notion of delinking has mobilized critical thought and political imaginations alike.
Delinking has been commonly envisaged as a strategy in the fight for equality and recognition of colonized and marginalized (groups of) people; however, the question remains how these concepts take shape and how they can be implemented in critical sociological thought. At the same time, critics point to the fact that the result of core and semi-peripheral states’ delinking, de-westernizing, or deglobalizing has brought about growing populism, a retreat into nationalism, and a revival of racist, xenophobic, and anti-gender tactics, as current politics in the USA, UK, Brazil, Hungary or India vividly illustrate.
In this panel we scrutinize these (causal) connections and invite papers that take critical stock of these developments in both the short and the long term.
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