Finding Agency in the Margins: Lessons from Teaching as Immigrant Women of Color

Biswas, Bidisha; Deylami, Shirin S.

doi:10.1017/s1049096517001184

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“…As highlighted earlier, it could result in unproblematic reifications of pervasive ‘West/non-West’ binaries. This raises important questions about who and what counts as authentic ‘non-Western’ knowledge (Biswas and Deylami, 2017; Vieira, 2019) and potentially reduces IR knowledge to a form of identity politics (Acharya and Buzan, 2010: 14; Capan, 2017: 8; Narain, 2017: 20). As one respondent highlighted, ‘one doesn’t want to go down the reductive route of saying what you study should be conditioned by who you are because then only Indian people should be qualified to speak on India .…”

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Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation

Loke¹,

Owen

2021

European Journal of International Relations

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This article conceptualises the variety of approaches taken by International Relations (IR) scholars around the world to dominant forms of knowledge production in IR. In doing so, it advances Global IR debates along two axes: on practices and on spatiality. We argue that binary conceptions are unhelpful and that engagement with knowledge production practices is best captured by a landscape of complexity, requiring a deeper interrogation of positionality, globality and context. Using 26 qualitative interviews with IR academics at institutions in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Eurasia and Africa, we construct a typology comprising seven modes of engagement that capture the conflicted relationships to dominant forms and practices of knowledge production in IR. The typology is intended to highlight the variation, complexity and contextual particularities in global IR knowledge production practices and to enable an interrogation of spatial hierarchies that unsettle conventional geopolitical West/non-West fault-lines.

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