What is race? Epistemic ambiguity and liberal international order.
There is increasing interest in how anticolonial actors advanced a norm of racial equality in mid-century formations of liberal international order (LIO). Less attention, however, is afforded to simultaneous epistemic conflicts over the scientific object of 'race' and their political effects. During...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 100; no. 4; pp. 1615 - 1634 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2024
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