In this article, the author reflects on issues raised by two Central Asian scholars, Nari Shelekpayev and Aminat Chokobaeva, in their comments Martin Müller’s idea of “Global East”, as well itself. Asia, Russia, essentialism is widespread; it difficult to call “tactical,” Chokobaeva do. They correctly consider East” be a political project, but its nature must understood based concept South” an ...

This response outlines the intention of thinking critically about terrain as a way to think political materiality territory. It responds interlocutors particularly around themes place, geology, depth, Eurocentrism, and relation between human physical geography.

Doğu ile Batı kutuplaşmasının doğasına dair varsayımların temelinde yatan ideolojik tefrikler basit bir çatışmanın yansıması değildir. “Avrupamerkezcilik” ibaresi kurgulanan arasındaki ayrımcılığı Antonio Gramsci’nin “hegemonya” kategorisi ve Michel Foucault’nun “bilgi-güç” denklemi etrafında sorgulamak, bilmediğimiz birçok algı biçimini ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bir görüş temsil makamı doğrultusunda...

Abstract Theorising a non-Eurocentric “global international relations” has been main preoccupation of scholars associated with political sociology (IPS). In this article, I argue that within the IPS tradition have provided powerful critique of, but no clear alternative to, Eurocentrism. This is partly attributable to their insufficient problematisation historical narratives propel capitalism ba...