RETHINKING, RETURNING, REFLECTING Cover Image

RETHINKING, RETURNING, REFLECTING
RETHINKING, RETURNING, REFLECTING

Author(s): V. Spike PETERSON
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Epistemology, Political Sciences, Political history, Social Theory
Published by: Rasim Özgür DÖNMEZ
Keywords: Feminist IR; Gender; Critical Theories; Epistemology; Intersectionality;

Summary/Abstract: After almost four decades of feminist International Relations (IR), I here rethink the journey this has entailed – for myself and others -- and contemplate where it has taken us. I first consider my own introduction to the discipline of IR and interpret activist commitments of the ‘first generation’ of participants. I then return to early developments and initial questions that fostered boundary-transgressing feminist contributions. Recalling three ‘imagined’ critical conversations – regarding empirical criteria, epistemological frames and normative/political strategies – I then reflect on the feminist journey of many into, within, and increasingly beyond the constraining boundaries of disciplinary IR.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 325-342
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English