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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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"Move Aside Spengler! Move Aside Toynbee! CLR James as an Alternative ‘Classical’ Source of thought on Civilization and International Relations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251216_index.html>

, 2008-03-26 "Move Aside Spengler! Move Aside Toynbee! CLR James as an Alternative ‘Classical’ Source of thought on Civilization and International Relations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251216_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Historically, the majority of Western political thought on the meaning and dynamics of world history has used civilizations rather than states as the prime category for investigation. Those sensitive to this inheritance in IR often look to classical forebears for enlightenment such as Spengler, with his “provincialisation” of Europe as a declining civilization, or perhaps Toynbee and his influence on the English School’s historicist yet also realist understanding of “international society”. And yet, for most of modern history, Western civilization was illuminated in relation to and in opposition to the condition of slavery. However, this engagement with slavery was and is a tense and intimate one because it posits a “barbaric” Atlantic that has historically glued the two parts of “Western” civilization together. This relationship of Western civilization to slavery remains woefully under-examined in IR, even by critical thinkers. Nevertheless, this lacuna was critically addressed many years ago by CLR James who, over a number of investigations, wove an historical narrative of the meaning and dynamics of Western civilization in world history that intertwined slave revolutions and abolitionism in the New World with such diverse topics as American literature, American industrialisation, the New Deal, Stalinism, trade unionism, Pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism, cricket, and citizenship in ancient Greece. IR has much to take from the way in which this neglected author interrogated the relationship between slavery and Western civilization in cross-disciplinary as well as cross-cultural terms. Nevertheless, an investigation of James’ work also highlights the problems of developing even a critical “civilizational approach” to IR, especially when it comes time to engage with “peripheral” responses to the historical injustices propagated by Western civilization.

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