Your Work Is Not International Relations

Abu-Bakare, Amal ORCID: 0000-0002-9908-398X (2022) Your Work Is Not International Relations. ALTERNATIVES, 47 (2). pp. 115-122.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03043754221076965

Abstract

<jats:p> This is an eight-page reflection piece on gatekeeping in IR knowledge production and the politics that goes into presenting national racial contestations as issues unworthy of international study and consideration. Premised on a personal experience of scholastic rejection, this commentary is a reflective intervention concerning the state of the field and the imperial connotations of methodological disciplinarity – the process in which IR research is restricted within disciplinary borders because of scholastic endeavours to keep the discipline pure. Here, using anti-imperial thought, I press for deeper consideration and re-evaluation of how academics come to decide which experiences of the world should be deemed worthy of global recognition and where the boundaries of IR should come to an end. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	intervention, reparative scholarship, racialisation, international relations, counterterrorism
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2022 14:17
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 21:11
DOI:	10.1177/03043754221076965
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754221076965
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3150368