Uneven worlds of hegemony: Towards a discursive ontology of societal multiplicity. Morozov, V. International Relations, 36(1):83–103, March, 2022. Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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The neo-Marxist literature on uneven and combined development has made significant progress towards a comprehensive theory of the international. Its point of departure is societal multiplicity as a fundamental condition of the international. This article identifies an important lacuna in the ontology of multiplicity: there is no discussion of what constitutes a ‘society’, or the basic entity capable of entering a relationship with other entities. Existing solutions, including those relying on relational sociology, gravitate towards ontological individualism. Building on poststructuralist neo-Gramscian theories, I propose to ground the conceptualisation of ‘society’ in the notion of hegemony. This implies a discursive ontology, which attributes the inside/outside dynamic to hegemonic formations rather than states or societies. Coupled with the understanding of hegemony as a scalar phenomenon, this ontology can account for the primacy of the state in modern times, while also enabling a research focus on other types of collectivities.
@article{morozov_uneven_2022,
	title = {Uneven worlds of hegemony: {Towards} a discursive ontology of societal multiplicity},
	volume = {36},
	issn = {0047-1178},
	shorttitle = {Uneven worlds of hegemony},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178211010321},
	doi = {10.1177/00471178211010321},
	abstract = {The neo-Marxist literature on uneven and combined development has made significant progress towards a comprehensive theory of the international. Its point of departure is societal multiplicity as a fundamental condition of the international. This article identifies an important lacuna in the ontology of multiplicity: there is no discussion of what constitutes a ‘society’, or the basic entity capable of entering a relationship with other entities. Existing solutions, including those relying on relational sociology, gravitate towards ontological individualism. Building on poststructuralist neo-Gramscian theories, I propose to ground the conceptualisation of ‘society’ in the notion of hegemony. This implies a discursive ontology, which attributes the inside/outside dynamic to hegemonic formations rather than states or societies. Coupled with the understanding of hegemony as a scalar phenomenon, this ontology can account for the primacy of the state in modern times, while also enabling a research focus on other types of collectivities.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2023-05-05},
	journal = {International Relations},
	author = {Morozov, Viacheslav},
	month = mar,
	year = {2022},
	note = {Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd},
	pages = {83--103},
}

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