Original paper
Decentering the Self, Seeing Like the Other: Toward a Postcolonial Approach to Ontological Security
Abstract
This article advances a critical outlook on dominant interpretations of ontological security in international relations. It suggests that the preoccupation with state- and identity-centric analyses diminishes the value of the Other to an archetype of ontological insecurity and a source of ontological insecurity for the Self. It argues that seeing ontological security from the postcolonial perspective expands the self-referential understanding of...
Paper Details
Title
Decentering the Self, Seeing Like the Other: Toward a Postcolonial Approach to Ontological Security
Published Date
Sep 3, 2019
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