This volume aims to unsettle the silence that surrounds fieldwork failure in both methods training and academic publications. While fieldwork has gradually evolved into standard practice in IR research, the question of possible failures in field-based knowledge production remains conspicuously absent from both graduate training and writing in IR. This volume fills that lacuna by engaging with fieldwork as a site of knowledge production and inevitable failure. It develops methodological discussions in IR in two novel ways. First, it engages failure through experience-near and practice-based perspectives, with authors speaking from their experiences. And secondly, it delves into the politics of methods in IR and the discipline more generally to probe ways in which the realities of research condition scholarly claims.
V tomto krátkém zamyšlení pro poslední české číslo Mezinárodních vztahů (dále MV) reflektuji jednu z opomíjených funkcí odborného časopisu, funkci vzdělávací. Argumentuji, že díky svému omezení na publikování textů v českém jazyce patřily MV mezi malé časopisy. Podobně jako malé státy v mezinárodním systému, i malé časopisy mají své specifické charakteristiky, funkce a strategie, kterými se snaží překonávat systemická omezení.
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