Narrative and Critical Imaginations in International Relations

Narrative strategies have gained growing attention in IR. One key promise is mobilizing a diversity of interpretations and exploring the politics contestedness in ways that support the view of IR as focused on the multiplicity of the world(s) of international and global affairs. This article brings...

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Main Author: Jessica da Silva C. De Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2020-12-01
Series:Vestnik RUDN. International Relations
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/viewFile/23327/18039
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description Narrative strategies have gained growing attention in IR. One key promise is mobilizing a diversity of interpretations and exploring the politics contestedness in ways that support the view of IR as focused on the multiplicity of the world(s) of international and global affairs. This article brings a broad map of the use of narrative approaches in IR and connects it with Edward Said’s notion of “worldliness” in order to highlight the political aspects of writing and representation within academia. It situates this “narrative turn” within the complexities of a broader context of crisis in Eurocentric forms of knowledge and representation. In addition, it reveals a double movement of scholarly disenchantment and re-enchantment that signals towards the productivity of intellectual unease about representational practices and the place of the “I” voice in academic writing. Bearing in mind these reactions and shared pursuit of a more empathetic relationship between researcher and researched, scholars and the public in general, teachers and students, I thus briefly tell the experience of openly discussing and practicing a narrative approach in the classroom and how students tended to engage (or not) with narrative as a way of making sense of their “I” in IR.
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spelling doaj.art-0bd71eeea75446f2b8b5e1fba38a893a2023-02-02T21:46:16ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Vestnik RUDN. International Relations2313-06602313-06792020-12-0120113114610.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-1-131-14618714Narrative and Critical Imaginations in International RelationsJessica da Silva C. De Oliveira0Pontifical Catholic University of Minas GeraisNarrative strategies have gained growing attention in IR. One key promise is mobilizing a diversity of interpretations and exploring the politics contestedness in ways that support the view of IR as focused on the multiplicity of the world(s) of international and global affairs. This article brings a broad map of the use of narrative approaches in IR and connects it with Edward Said’s notion of “worldliness” in order to highlight the political aspects of writing and representation within academia. It situates this “narrative turn” within the complexities of a broader context of crisis in Eurocentric forms of knowledge and representation. In addition, it reveals a double movement of scholarly disenchantment and re-enchantment that signals towards the productivity of intellectual unease about representational practices and the place of the “I” voice in academic writing. Bearing in mind these reactions and shared pursuit of a more empathetic relationship between researcher and researched, scholars and the public in general, teachers and students, I thus briefly tell the experience of openly discussing and practicing a narrative approach in the classroom and how students tended to engage (or not) with narrative as a way of making sense of their “I” in IR.http://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/viewFile/23327/18039narrativeinternational relations (ir)subalternization of knowledgeedward saidpostcolonialismmethodology
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subalternization of knowledge
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postcolonialism
methodology
title Narrative and Critical Imaginations in International Relations
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title_fullStr Narrative and Critical Imaginations in International Relations
title_full_unstemmed Narrative and Critical Imaginations in International Relations
title_short Narrative and Critical Imaginations in International Relations
title_sort narrative and critical imaginations in international relations
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international relations (ir)
subalternization of knowledge
edward said
postcolonialism
methodology
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