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- The ‘standard of civilisation’ was used by international lawyers in the nineteenth century to defend the Europeans’ right to colonise and control non-European societies. The concept is one illustration of how the European civilising process influenced world politics, and process sociology helps to explain its development.
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Oct 22, 2020 · This introductory chapter lays out the method, theory and historical framework of the study. It focuses on the potential for historical materialism to help us better understand and critique international law uncovering its structural complicity with oppression, exploitation and dispossession.
- Ntina Tzouvala
- 2020
‘standard of civilization’ in the nineteenth century was informed by the historical pattern of its responses to hegemony and the discourse on cultural superiority in the Far East that shifted from Sinocentrism to the unbroken Imperial lineage to the national-spirit.
This monograph interrogates the ‘standard of civilisation’ in inter-national law. I have come to understand ‘civilisation’ not as a unitary legal concept lending itself to conclusive definition but as a mode of international legal argumentation.
- Process Thinking, Civilisation and Empire
- The European ‘Standard of Civilisation’
- Secondary Imperialism in The ‘civilised’ Society of States
- A Contemporary Standard of Civilisation?
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- References
- Biography
The summation of the method of process sociology that will be employed below to analyse the classical standard of civilisation and its more recent mutations is worth quoting in full: The ‘standard of civilisation’ was an intriguing example of particular global interconnections and specific power balances in which the established groups asserted the...
Elias’s analysis of state formation and explanation of the processes by which Europeans came to think of themselves as uniquely ‘civilised’ was a major breakthrough in the social sciences. But European state formation was inextricably linked with two other developments – the rise of the overseas empires and the construction of the international soc...
Elias (2012 [1939]: 426) argued in the late 1930s that the growing transformation of non-European peoples to comply with Western values was the more recent phase of ‘the continuing civilising movement’. The reference was to an era in which the global distribution of power was more unequal than it is today, and when the majority of non-European elit...
The conceptual inventions that were noted in the previous paragraph almost certainly led many Europeans to conclude that some non-European peoples were firmly on course to satisfy the imperial ‘standard of civilisation’. Several non-European societies such as China, Turkey and Egypt became members of the ‘civilised’ society of states in the first p...
This article is based on a keynote lecture delivered at the Conference on Social Character and Historical Processes: A Conference in Honour of Stephen Mennellheld at Newman House in Dublin on 7–8 J...Greenblatt (1990: 62) refers to an Amerindian’s disgust at the European practice of using handkerchiefs to collect and carrying about mucus. ‘If thou likest that filth’, the person is quoted as say...Especially influential was the ‘avalanche’ of anti-Turkish pamphlets (Türkenbüchlein) from the early- to mid-fifteenth century in Germany which highlighted ‘barbaric’ atrocities against Christians...The problem that is highlighted here was illustrated by Donald J. Trump’s speech on 7 December 2015 (following the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino) in which he called for banning Muslims from e...Andrieu, K. (2010) ‘Civilizing Peacebuilding: Transitional Justice, Civil Society and the Liberal Paradigm’, Security Dialogue41 (5), 537–58.Bain, W. (2003) Between Anarchy and Society: Trusteeship and the Obligations of Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Barnes, J. (2015) ‘The “War on Terror” and the Battle for the Definition of Torture’, International Relations, 30 (1), 102–24.Barrett, T. M. (1994) ‘The Remaking of the Lion of Dagestan: Shamil in Captivity’, The Russian Review, 53, 3, 353–66.Andrew Linklater is Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales. He has published several books and papers on theories of international relations, including Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations, Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations, The Transformation ...
- Andrew Linklater
- 2016
Oct 12, 2023 · The Standard of Civilization. In 1929 lucien Febvre offered the first systematic reflection on the evolution of the meanings of the term ‘civilization’, from singular ideal, which he dated to the third quarter of the 18th century, to plural fact, which he placed at the close of the Napoleonic epoch. In 1944–45 he devoted his last lecture ...
AB - The ‘standard of civilisation’ was used by international lawyers in the nineteenth century to defend the Europeans’ right to colonise and control non-European societies. The concept is one illustration of how the European civilising process influenced world politics, and process sociology helps to explain its development.
Mar 7, 2018 · In short, a standard of civilisation has not only defined the terms of acceptance and belonging to a community of both civilised members and those still to be civilised, as it has also established an orderly hierarchy between the civilised, scaling down to the most uncivilised.
