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| 2010 | Brincat, Shannon K. and Aylward, Leah (2010). Overcoming the cosmopolitan/communitarian divide through anarchism: La Via Campesina and the principles of anarchism. In: , Rethinking anarchy : Anarchism and world politics. Research on Anarchism Forum, Bristol, United Kingdom, (1-46). 17-18 June 2010. |
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The cosmopolitan and communitarian dualism has long been a dividing line in the field of IR theory. On the one hand, cosmopolitan arguments are beset by charges of domination under an unswerving universalism that is said to be washed over human plurality and diversity. On the other hand, communitarianism is consumed under the contradiction of a parochialism that seeks to reduce community and ethics to the local sphere alone. This false dualism, a necessary corollary of the dominant discourse of the "anarchy problematique in IR theory, is an unwelcome distraction that corners the debate of human emancipation within definitional obscurity and the abstraction of an alleged perpetual antagonism between the universal and the local. In this article, it is argued that IR theory could circumvent this impasse by taking into account the key principles of anarchist philosophy ; mutualism and global confederalism without executive power. In support of this argument, the paper explores the contemporary social movement La Via Campesina and suggests that it uniquely reflects certain anarchistic modes of social organization Through such a form of organization the oppressed of the world can be united in their unique differences and joint desire for emancipation.
| | Ms Leah Aylward,  Dr Shannon Brincat | | eSpace Record: |
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:237054
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| Keywords: | Anarchism, Cosmopolitanism and communitarianism, The anarchy problematique, Confederalism | | |
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