Author: Jack L Amoureux Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317656024 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 308
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Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and post-structuralists. This volume seeks to provide the first overview of reflexivity in international relations theory, offering students and scholars a text that : provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the current reflexivity literature develops important insights into how reflexivity can play a broader role in IR theory pushes reflexivity in new, productive directions, and offers more nuanced and concrete specifications of reflexivity moves reflexivity beyond the scholar and the scholarly field to political practice Formulates practices of reflexivity. Drawing together the work of many of the key scholars in the field into one volume, this work will be essential reading for all students of international relations theory.
Author: Jack L Amoureux Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317656016 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and post-structuralists. This volume seeks to provide the first overview of reflexivity in international relations theory, offering students and scholars a text that : provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the current reflexivity literature develops important insights into how reflexivity can play a broader role in IR theory pushes reflexivity in new, productive directions, and offers more nuanced and concrete specifications of reflexivity moves reflexivity beyond the scholar and the scholarly field to political practice Formulates practices of reflexivity. Drawing together the work of many of the key scholars in the field into one volume, this work will be essential reading for all students of international relations theory.
Author: Jack L. Amoureux Publisher: ISBN: 9781138789227 Category : International relations Languages : en Pages : 0
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Promise Unfulfilled? : Reflexivity as Agency and Ethics / Jack L. Amoureux -- Narrative Engagement and the Creative Practices of International Relations / Elizabeth Dauphinee -- Whistle Interruption : Reflexivity and Documentary Provocation / Brent J. Steele -- Zooming in, Zooming Out: Reflexive Engagements / Piki Ish-Shalom -- Between "Late Style" and Sustainable Critique : Said, Adorno and the Israel-Palestine Conflict / Daniel J. Levine -- Reflexivity and Research : Feminist Interventions and Their Practical Implications / Andrea L. Dottolo and Sarah M. Tillery -- Reflexivity@Disney-U : 11 Theses on Living in IR / Mauro J. Caraccioli and Aida A. Hozic -- Exile as Reflexive Engagemen : IR as Everyday Practice / Amanda Beattie -- Reflexivity, Critique, and the Jewish Diaspora / Ilan Zvi-Baron -- Human Terrain Systems and Reflexivity / Evgenia Ileva -- Reflexive Diplomacy / Huss Banai -- When the fix Isn't in : Toward a Reflexive Pragmatism / Wesley Widmaier -- A Reflexive Practice of Prudence / Harry Gould -- Reflexivity beyond Subjectivism : From Descartes to Dewey / Mark E. Button -- Conclusion / Iver B. Neumann
Author: Jack L. Amoureux Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317753372 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 311
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What kind of ethics in world politics is possible if there is no foundation for moral knowledge or global reality is at least complex and contingent? Furthermore, how can an ethics grapple with difference, a persistent and confounding feature for global politics? This book responds to the call for a bold and creative approach to ethics that avoids assuming or aspiring to universality, and instead prioritizes difference, complexity and uncertainty by turning to reflexivity, not as method or methodology, but as a practice of ethics for politics. This practice, ‘ethical reflexivity’, offers individuals, organizations and communities tools to recognize, interrogate and potentially change the stories they tell about politics—about constraints, notions of responsibility and visions of desirability. The benefits and limits of ethical reflexivity are investigated by the author, who engages writing on critique, rhetoric, affect and relationality, and carefully considers dominant and alternative framings of difficult issues in International Relations (IR)—the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and the US policies of ‘enhanced interrogation’ and drone strikes. This path-breaking study provokes new possibilities for agency and action and contributes to a growing literature in IR on reflexivity by uniquely elaborating its promise as an ethics for politics, and by drawing on thinkers less utilized in discussions of reflexivity such as Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Aristotle. This book will appeal to scholars and upper-level graduates in several sub-fields of IR, including international/global ethics, IR theory, global governance, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, foreign policy analysis and US foreign policy.
Author: Patrick Thaddeus Jackson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136912029 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 665
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This volume ws the winner of The International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award 2013, presented by the International Studies Association and The Yale H. Ferguson Award 2012, presented by International Studies Association-Northeast. There are many different scientifically valid ways to produce knowledge. The field of International Relations should pay closer attention to these methodological differences, and to their implications for concrete research on world politics. The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations provides an introduction to the philosophy of science issues and their implications for the study of global politics. The author draws attention to the problems caused by the misleading notion of a single unified scientific method, and proposes a framework that clarifies the variety of ways that IR scholars establish the authority and validity of their empirical claims. Jackson connects philosophical considerations with concrete issues of research design within neopositivist, critical realist, analyticist, and reflexive approaches to the study of world politics. Envisioning a pluralist science for a global IR field, this volume organizes the significant differences between methodological stances so as to promote internal consistency, public discussion, and worldly insight as the hallmarks of any scientific study of world politics. This important volume will be essential reading for all students and scholars of International Relations, Political Science and Philosophy of Science.
Author: Mark A. Neufeld Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521479363 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 194
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Arguing for a theory of international politics committed to human emancipation, this text suggests that international relations theory must move in a nonpositivist direction. It explores recent developments in the discipline, including critical, Gramscian, postmodernist, feminist and normative approaches.
Author: Richa Nagar Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252096754 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 241
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In Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar embarks on an eloquent and moving exploration of the promises and pitfalls she has encountered during her two decades of transnational feminist work. With stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, Nagar grapples with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged scholarship. Experiences that range from the streets of Dar es Salaam to farms and development offices in North India inform discussion of the labor and politics of coauthorship, translation, and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple--and often difficult--borders. The author links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that bring these into intimate dialogue Daringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politically engaged researcher and writer working to become ""radically vulnerable,"" and the ways in which such radical vulnerability can allow a re-imagining of collaboration that opens up new avenues to collective dreaming and laboring across sociopolitical, geographical, linguistic, and institutional borders.
Author: Jon Dean Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1447330854 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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This book provides social science researchers with both a strong rationale for the importance of thinking reflexively and a practical guide to doing it. The first book to build on Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive work, it combines academic analysis with practical examples and case studies. The book will be of interest to researchers and students.
Author: Rosalind Eyben Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135132747 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 246
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How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into the world of aid – its people, ideas and values against the backdrop of a broader historical analysis of the contested ideals and politics of aid operations from the 1960s to the present day. Moving between aid-recipient countries, head office and global policy spaces, Rosalind Eyben critically examines her own behaviour to explore what happens when trying to improve people’s lives in far-away countries and warns how self-deception may construct obstacles to the very change desired, considering the challenge to traditional aid practices posed by new donors like Brazil who speak of history and relationships. The book proposes that to help make this a better world, individuals and organisations working in international development must respond self-critically to the dilemmas of power and knowledge that shape aid’s messy relations. Written in an accessible way with vignettes, stories and dialogue, this critical history of aid provides practical tools and methodology for students in development studies, anthropology and international studies and for development practitioners to adopt the habit of reflexivity when helping to make a better world.
Author: Jack L Amoureux
Author: Jack L Amoureux
Author: Jack L. Amoureux
Author: Jack L. Amoureux
Author: Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Author: Mark A. Neufeld
Author: Richa Nagar
Author: Jon Dean
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Author: Rosalind Eyben