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Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial approaches, this volume investigates both the theoretical foundations and the practical challenges of 'reversing the gaze' as a strategy for re-orienting global knowledge production.
It brings together reflections on the theoretical and methodological implications of applying social-scientific concepts, typically developed to explain social and institutional phenomena in non-European settings, to the study of analogous empirical dynamics within Europe. In doing so, the contributions confront the potential pitfalls of this approach and grapple with the persistent epistemic, conceptual and normative frictions that inevitably shape such undertakings.
Ultimately, the volume advances new conceptual and methodological pathways that offer practical visions for global knowledge production, attentive to the epistemic, moral and political issues at stake in contemporary debates.
Deval Desai is Reader in International Economic Law at the University of Edinburgh Law School.
Benedikt Korf is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Zurich.
Elísio Macamo is Professor of Sociology and African Studies at the University of Basel.
Pascal Schmid is a research associate at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.
Ralph Weber is Associate Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel.
1. Introduction: Reversing the Gaze - Deval Desai, Benedikt Korf, Elísio Macamo and Ralph Weber
2. Entanglements and Differences - Rowena Azada-Palacios, Deval Desai and Christine Lutringer
3. Reversing the Gaze of Political Theory - Benedikt Korf and Stephan Hochleithner
4. Reversing the Gaze and the Problem of Appropriation - Lerato Posholi
5. Communities of Virtue - Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba, Elísio Macamo and Matthias Maurer Rueda
6. Beyond Scalar Boundaries: Exploring Connections Between Democracy and Welfare Through Access Theory - Anna Rita Cedia, Shruti Herbert, Stephan Hochleithner, Christine Lutringer and Matthias Maurer-Rueda
7. The Moral Ecology of Concepts - Elísio Macamo
8. Reversing the Gaze and the Post-Comparative Approach: Promises and Challenges - Ralph Weber
9. The moral ecology of populist politics – Benedikt Korf, Neloufer de Mel and Pradeep Peiris
Postscript - Deval Desai, Benedikt Korf, Elísio Macamo and Ralph Weber