Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option
Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12693271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Fisher (0000-0002-1774-4431, corresponding author), Kathryn M Fisher (Le Cordon Bleu, UK), Christopher Mcintosh (0000-0001-7350-2579, Bard College) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1727-1750 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isr/viab040 |
| OpenAlex | W4246709575 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 70 |
Questions regarding the political significance of international relations (IR) and how scholarly practice relates to/constitutes a political practice appear newly resonant, but are longstanding concerns. This article utilizes the growing literature on temporality within international politics to analyze the political potential of these intellectual interventions and generate new ways of framing scholarly practice. We observe two trends within the field. First, IR as a discipline remains largely—although not exclusively—imagined as an English-language discipline generated by scholars in the Global North. Each area's political discourse is currently dominated by fears surrounding foundational political and institutional change due to the rise of racialized authoritarianism within these self-imagined democratic societies. Despite these purportedly dramatic developments, there has not been a similarly dramatic shift in the scholarly relationship with politics. Scholars continue to successfully intervene in their collective presents, but scholarship itself remains oriented toward enduring claims that accumulate knowledge and resist the possibility of “failure.” This paper theorizes the temporality of critical intervention to better relate positively to the bodies that co-constitute our political present. Ultimately, this paper concludes by arguing for a reconsideration of contradiction and failure as frames for thinking scholarly practice in time
Authoritarianism · Contradiction · Democracy · Epistemology · Framing (construction · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Global Security and Public Health · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Peacebuilding and International Security · History · Law
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The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations
Quantum Mind and Social Science
International Relations and the Problem of Difference
Provincializing Europe
Time and World Politics
Time in International Relations Theory
Politics of the Event
Recovering International Relations
Conceptualizing Relational Sociology
Trauma and the Memory of Politics
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Theorizing the Temporal Exception
Is faster better? Political and ethical framings of pace and space
Theory across time
Timing is Everything
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The Apparent Decline of the IR Paradigms
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From Wendt to Kuhn
Policy relevance
We’ the Subject
Doing and mediating critique
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Vigilant Visualities
Social Forces, States and World Orders
Silent Order
Turning Temporal
Advancing a Reflexive International Relations
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Forget IR Theory
The Need for Praxis
Race, the World and Time
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Contingencies of Value
Theory of international politics
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The (S)pace of International Relations
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Timing is Everything
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Relations Before States
Theory is dead, long live theory
The limits of historical sociology
The closing of the American mind
Differing about Difference
Novel writing in international relations
Micro-moves in International Relations theory
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
The postcolonial moment in security studies
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Global International Relations (IR) and Regional Worlds
Everywhere and all the time
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |