Dialectics in critical international relations theory

Brincat, Shannon; Heupner, Susan de Groot

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“…Although it seems the face of Muhammed represents a polarity between extremist conceptions of the “people” and the “ ummah ”, their mutuality becomes visible when the image of the Prophet is considered as a metaphor. Here, the fine distinction is that polarities are connected beyond their opposition; subject A and B are connected through C rather than A≠B (see also Brincat and de Groot Heupner 2020). Similar to the logic of metaphors, subject A and B are dependent on a third element that functions to substitute the meaning of A and B.…”

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“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics

Heupner

2022

Politics and Religion

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Since the 2005 Jyllands-Posten controversy, both far right and Islamist actors have employed Muhammed cartoons to construct a radical frontier between Muslims and non-Muslims. This article aims to provide a better understanding of the linkages between two opposing forms of popular identification by looking at the utilization of the Muhammed cartoons to crystallize a multitude of (conflicting) subjects, affects, and demands. Following a vantage point of mutual relations, the article investigates the discursive performances of the Dutch branch of the transnational Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir and the far right Party for Freedom with respect to the Jyllands-Posten affair, the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks, and the 2020 killing of a French schoolteacher. Considering its cultural and political foundations of mutual respect and tolerance, the Dutch case is pertinent for examining the tension between the right to free speech and support for extremist and popular forms of (far right and Islamist) identification.

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“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics

Heupner

2022

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Teaching Theory as a Transformative Praxis in International Studies

Shahi

2024

The Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy

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A pedagogical plan promoting a “Global” approach to international relations theory (IRT) requires us to bridge two gaps: first, the “published-taught gap” (even if published IRT is endowed with non-Western worldviews, taught IRT suffers from Western parochialism); second, the “theory-praxis gap” (though non-Western worldviews supply theoretical perspectives, they are often not translated into doable policy actions). To bridge these gaps, this chapter presents the pedagogical plan of “teaching theory as a transformative praxis.” In IRT classrooms, this pedagogical plan proceeds in three stages. The first stage revisits the “great debates” of IRT from Western as well as non-Western vantage points. The second stage performs cross-fertilization between ontologies, methodologies, and epistemologies of Western and non-Western IRT. Finally, the third stage shows how the search for complementarities between Western and non-Western IRT—under the aegis of Global IRT—forms a creative platform to invent innovative proposals to deal with diverse policy problems relating to contemporary world politics.

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Dialectics in critical international relations theory

Cited by 2 publications

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“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics

“Je suis … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed”: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics

Teaching Theory as a Transformative Praxis in International Studies

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