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  1. Oct 2024
    1. reinforcing theGramscian hegemony

      refers to the way dominant groups in society maintain power not just through coercion or force but by securing the consent of the subordinate classes. This is achieved by shaping cultural norms, ideologies, and institutions in a way that makes the dominance of the ruling class seem natural, inevitable, and beneficial to all.

    2. resist the Western predominance anddilute the repressive power relationship than to take the Western IR

      wishes to rewrite and dissemble rather than broaden and expand

    3. Its standard for evaluating IR theories is to see whetherthey can travel – that is, whether theories developed in non-Western areas can beapplicable beyond their origins and in other geocultural locations as well

      western IR should be more applicable to nonwestern states (see acharya aritcle) but there shuld also be a borader, non-west specific IR research

    4. positivism

      a philosophical system recognizing only that which can be scientifically verified or which is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and therefore rejecting metaphysics and theism.

    5. actively suppresses alternative views and visions’

      but is that not because it developed earlier?

    1. ‘Aboriginal’ law is not formalised in legal text but livedthrough customs, believes, values, and everyday practices. This law is incom-patible with the notions of sovereignty and land title promoted by theAustralian state.

      it seems indigenous tradition is not and will never be synonymous with westphalian sovereignity and therefore due to western dominance they are often not trested fairly

    2. The Declaration does not establishWestphalian sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.

      do not have the same extent of rights as the west

    1. antithetical

      mutually incompatiblw

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    1. it is not enough to show that it has the best fit in some predetermined normative niche, and then to call this conception welfare

      can't define welfare by shaping it to fit our normative ideas

    2. first you accept a theory of justice which equates it with equality of welfare and then you accept a theory of welfare which equates it with ownership of resources

      ?

    3. what welfare consists in such that the requirement of an equal distribution of that makes for a plausible theory of justice.

      findinf what welfare must be such that an equal distribution of this results in the longstanding aim of a plausible theory of justice

    4. the only criterion of adequacy for a candidate conception will be its ability to play its designated role within the framework in question

      what?

    5. nature really can be settled independently of assumptions about its value

      nature independent of value??

    6. preanalytic agreement on what is to count as faring well or badly

      difficult/rabbit hole

    7. that if one event is the cause of another then the first necessitates the second, or has the power to make it happen

      hume

    8. not to be merely analytic or conceptual

      welfare is some kind of strange mix between science and philosophy

    9. inter alia

      among other things