Cause and evidence: on the erasure of women’s international thought and IR’s ‘failure as an intellectual project

For many contemporary international thinkers, to examine the history of international thought in the academic discipline of international relations (IR) is to be struck by its narrowness, parochialism, and pedestrianism. IR’s great intellectual authorities are white men interpreted by white men work...

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Published in:International politics reviews 2021-12, Vol.9 (2), p.241-245
Main Authors: Owens, Patricia, Dunstan, Sarah C., Hutchings, Kimberly, Rietzler, Katharina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Anthologies
Core curriculum
Diplomatic & consular services
Essays
Feminism
Foreign Policy
History
Interdisciplinary aspects
International Political Economy
International Relations
Minority & ethnic groups
Pedagogy
Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Political Science and International Studies
Politics
The Forum
White people
Writers
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Summary:For many contemporary international thinkers, to examine the history of international thought in the academic discipline of international relations (IR) is to be struck by its narrowness, parochialism, and pedestrianism. IR’s great intellectual authorities are white men interpreted by white men working in and sometimes emigrating to the Anglo-American center of the world. Even women and people of color working in the metropole, not to mention people from around the world, did not think very deeply about international relations until the 1980s. Or so it would seem from historical surveys of the IR feld, its disciplinary histories and collections of canonical thinkers and texts (Owens, 2018).
ISSN:2050-2982
2050-2990
DOI:10.1057/s41312-021-00123-z