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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Matheou, Nicholas S. M.
• Brubaker, Leslie
• Darley, Rebecca
• Reynolds, Daniel

Titel

Hegemony, Counterpower, and Global History: Medieval New Rome and Caucasia in a Critical Perspective

Ist Teil von

• Global Byzantium, 2022, Vol.1, p.208-236

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The comparative method now moves to the Caucasus and brings in a new methodological approach. Matheou shows the extent to which Byzantine influence is hegemonic in Armenia and the other cis-Caucasian lands. He argues that the Caucasian world operates as a highland in contrast to settled states, using James Scott's work on Burma to illustrate the highland-lowland relationship in a global perspective. This chapter aims to reveal the statist commonalities via a simultaneous critique of both, as well as indicate these fields' rich potential contributions to a radical, critical, and global History. It presents hegemony and counterpower as essential critical concepts for a methodologically anti-state, or, an anarchist heuristic able to comprehend History's construction as the mythology of state-civilisation. The chapter outlines hegemony in the example of medieval New Rome, and provides a definition in critical-global terms that recasts the familiar empire as an imperial state-system characterised by particular political-economic motions. The analytical imperative for an anarchist history of medieval New Rome and Caucasia is to situate this hegemonic cycle as an intrinsic part of this broader story as it played out regionally, interregionally, and, indeed, across continents. The chapter concludes with an anarchist heuristic as a radical intervention in the global turn, and provides preliminary thoughts towards a research programme on medieval New Rome and Caucasia seen in this critical perspective.