This Collective Discussion aims to open up space for an international political sociology of the production of historical knowledge that interrogates the politics around benchmark dates and what becomes knowable and unknowable through them. Specifically, it examines 1492 as a historiographical device through which to unpack how the discipline of IR knows history. 1492 presents a relevant case for this interrogation, for it is central for the historical narratives of a variety of approaches. In this sense, the different contributions do not seek to recover an alternative, ‘better’ history of 1492, but rather to explore its politics of knowledge production: what types of histories it makes visible, what types it precludes, and in what way it partakes in the reproduction of specific hierarchies of knowledge and the power structures that operate through them. In doing so, the Collective Discussion makes visible – and thus opens up for discussion – the historiographical operations performed by periodization and benchmark dating in IR, pointing to a way forward for an international political sociology of knowledge production in the discipline.

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思考 1492 年：国际关系的史学运作和基准日期的政治


本次集体讨论旨在为历史知识生产的国际政治社会学开辟空间，质疑围绕基准日期的政治以及通过基准日期变得可知和不可知的内容。具体来说，它将 1492 年作为一种史学工具进行研究，通过它来揭示 IR 学科如何了解历史。1492 为这种审问提供了一个相关的案例，因为它是各种方法的历史叙述的核心。从这个意义上说，不同的贡献并不寻求恢复 1492 年的另一种“更好”的历史，而是探索其知识生产的政治：它使哪些类型的历史可见，它排除了哪些类型，以及它以何种方式参与特定知识层次结构的复制以及通过它们运作的权力结构。在此过程中，集体讨论使国际关系中通过分期和基准测年法进行的史学操作变得可见——从而为讨论打开了大门——为该学科中知识生产的国际政治社会学指明了前进的道路。