Domestic Workers: Postcolonial Inheritance and International Relations
Abstract The discipline of International Relations (IR) in Latin American is still dominated by positivist and Westernized research. This creates challenges for international studies such as how to visualise the subjects or ‘sujetas’ who participate in national and international politics but are ig...
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
2022-11-01
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| description | Abstract The discipline of International Relations (IR) in Latin American is still dominated by positivist and Westernized research. This creates challenges for international studies such as how to visualise the subjects or ‘sujetas’ who participate in national and international politics but are ignored in this field, and how to value the current postcolonial research, which offers critical perspectives that equilibrate the epistemic balance and help build adequate tools to understand different regional phenomena. By analysing a case study of the Association of Women Domestic Employees of Paraguay, this article clarifies how a postcolonial approach enriches the field of IR. This study argues that postcolonialism contributes to this field by making visible cognitive subjects and ‘sujetas’, who offer an alternative knowledge construction to rethink international relations with a meta-theoretical extension, visible. Postcolonialism is the theoretical basis of this qualitative research. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations. This article suggests and concludes that women domestic workers as ‘political subjects’ enrich international relations by offering critical views to the research carried out in the subfields of foreign policy analysis, international political economy, and regionalism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c134922e41a54a27ab914acb6d2f04512022-12-22T04:39:38ZspaPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroContexto Internacional1982-02402022-11-0144210.1590/s0102-8529.20224402e20200132Domestic Workers: Postcolonial Inheritance and International RelationsKaren Johanna Pozohttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4585-3093Abstract The discipline of International Relations (IR) in Latin American is still dominated by positivist and Westernized research. This creates challenges for international studies such as how to visualise the subjects or ‘sujetas’ who participate in national and international politics but are ignored in this field, and how to value the current postcolonial research, which offers critical perspectives that equilibrate the epistemic balance and help build adequate tools to understand different regional phenomena. By analysing a case study of the Association of Women Domestic Employees of Paraguay, this article clarifies how a postcolonial approach enriches the field of IR. This study argues that postcolonialism contributes to this field by making visible cognitive subjects and ‘sujetas’, who offer an alternative knowledge construction to rethink international relations with a meta-theoretical extension, visible. Postcolonialism is the theoretical basis of this qualitative research. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations. This article suggests and concludes that women domestic workers as ‘political subjects’ enrich international relations by offering critical views to the research carried out in the subfields of foreign policy analysis, international political economy, and regionalism.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-85292022000200202&lng=en&tlng=eninternational relationspostcolonial theorycolonialitycolonial relationsParaguaydomestic workers |
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| title | Domestic Workers: Postcolonial Inheritance and International Relations |
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| title_short | Domestic Workers: Postcolonial Inheritance and International Relations |
| title_sort | domestic workers postcolonial inheritance and international relations |
| topic | international relations postcolonial theory coloniality colonial relations Paraguay domestic workers |
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