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The Critique of Eurocentrism The Critique of Eurocentrism
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Anglo-American Institutions and the Inequality among Stand-Ins Anglo-American Institutions and the Inequality among Stand-Ins
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Starting from Material Research Objects Starting from Material Research Objects
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The Specific Stand-Ins of Modern Institutions The Specific Stand-Ins of Modern Institutions
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The Stand-Ins of Postcolonial Theory The Stand-Ins of Postcolonial Theory
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An Invitation to Apply? An Invitation to Apply?
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Postcolonial Theory and Anglo-American Hegemony Postcolonial Theory and Anglo-American Hegemony
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The Intra-academic Dynamic of Orientalism The Intra-academic Dynamic of Orientalism
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The Stand-Ins of Regional Categories The Stand-Ins of Regional Categories
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Conclusion Conclusion
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6 The Model Cases of Global Knowledge
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Published:September 2021
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Abstract
Drawing on postcolonial theory and the debate about “Anglo-American hegemony” in the social sciences, this chapter notes that historicism and Anglo-American journals and reviewers have sponsored some stand-ins over others, limiting the ways different parts of the world feature in what is called “international social science”. It also argues that the logic of model cases has effects of its own: It does so, firstly, by discussing the particular Western countries that have functioned as model cases for studying different aspects of modernity, such as England, which has been the model case of capitalism and class formation, and France, which has served as the basis of our understanding of political modernity. It asks, secondly, about the model cases and paradigmatic examples of postcolonial theory itself, arguing that as an institutionalized approach category, it is not entirely exempt from the tendency to encourage an industry of application, which is a feature of approach categories in general. Thirdly, it sketches an agenda for comparative research on knowledge marked as area specific in terms of the model cases associated with areas in different disciplines in different places.
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