ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author exposes few endeavours which was undertaken to address the recursive paradox and include herself into the object of analysis. The author (re)theorises reflexivity to understand what its object and the obstacles to include ourselves in our research are. Then, the author reconceptualises 'diversity' to show how the lack of problematisation of the categories of analysis we use enables us to exclude ourselves from our object of analysis. The chapter illustrates how, using the anthropological literature focusing on ethnocentrism, the author problematised and reconceptualised the concepts of diversity and ethnocentrism to: decentre from the unreflexive use of these categories and objectivate their social implications, and produce an alternative theorisation of diversity that better fulfils heuristic and axiological needs. 'Global International Relations' promotion of diversity fails to acknowledge the role of unification dynamics in the processes of diversification and the interest of ethnocentrism to protect difference between social groups.
