ABSTRACT

The literature on ‘worlding IR’ that aims to recognize the possibility of the subject position of the non-West is growing. Offering a textual analysis, this article aims to contribute to critical IR debates by applying cinematographic apparatus theory to identify how the dominant subject position in IR is still reserved for the Western author and how the Western subject remains intact in worlding IR theorizing. The article treats worlding IR theorizing as if it functions as a camera connected to the ‘Western eye’, which turns the postcolonial usage of ‘worlding’ into an illusion that is reified and alienated. The peril of the IR adaptation of ‘worlding’ is the positioning of the West as a signifier that allows the theorist to forget that the non-West is a construct that gains meaning only in the terms of the prevailing colonial semiotics of the IR discipline. Worlding IR practices maintain the monocular Western perspective that they are trying to dis- or re-place. Therefore, this article concludes that ‘seeing IR in a new light’ is hardly possible as long as the theorist is positioned like an eye-camera, an ideological apparatus, seeing the world from a particular perspective centred by Western epistemology, projecting the world as imagined by the Western eye.

摘要

旨在承认非西方主体地位可能性的“世界国际关系”文献正在增长。本文提供文本分析，旨在通过应用电影设备理论来确定 IR 中的主导主体地位如何仍然保留给西方作者，从而为批判性 IR 辩论做出贡献以及西方主体如何在世界国际关系理论化中保持完整。这篇文章将worlding IR理论化视为连接到“西方眼睛”的照相机，这将后殖民时代对“worlding”的使用变成了一种被物化和异化的幻觉。国际关系适应“世界化”的危险在于，将西方定位为一个能指，使理论家忘记非西方是一种只有在国际关系学科盛行的殖民符号学方面才有意义的结构。Worlding IR 实践保持了他们试图取代或取代的单眼西方观点。因此，本文得出的结论是，只要理论家被定位为一个眼睛照相机，一个意识形态设备，“以新的视角看待 IR”几乎是不可能的，