Disciplinary Seriousness in International Relations: Towards a Counterpolitics of the Silly Object
Uygar Baspehlivan,
Alister Wedderburn
Abstract:International Relations is a discipline that takes itself seriously. What functions does this posture of seriousness serve? What is at stake in its maintenance and reproduction? And what ways of knowing, understanding, and performing politics are marginalized as a result? This article addresses these questions, drawing on feminist theory in order to show how the discipline’s performances of seriousness have served to exclude particular ways of being and knowing. While some feminists have responded to these exc… Show more
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