(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of 'Westsplaining' and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2023.2288468" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2023.2288468</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2023.2288468" target="_blank" >10.1080/13523260.2023.2288468</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of 'Westsplaining' and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Original language description

On February 24, 2022, the world was surprised by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and, perhaps even more so, by Ukraine's fierce resistance to it. In this article, we examine mainstream and feminist International Relations (IR) debates that have emerged in response to Russia's invasion, as well as the older debates revived through them. Building on decolonial and feminist scholarship, prominently centering feminist debates from Europe's East and Central Asia, we argue that dominant Western IR debates on Russia and Ukraine are shaped by inter-imperiality. We trace issues of epistemic injustice, epistemic imperialism and coloniality of knowledge production in mainstream IR and see them replicated in feminist debates, including from global South perspectives. We conclude with a contemplation on the structural changes warranted across academia to eliminate the coloniality of knowledge production about Ukraine and fellow societies as well as Indigenous nations affected by Russian colonial and imperial violence.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Contemporary Security Policy

ISSN

1352-3260

e-ISSN

1743-8764

Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

39

Pages from-to

171-209

UT code for WoS article

001112682000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85176118982