Ir
The Resurrection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6060957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cynthia Weber (0000-0001-6856-1291, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 435-450 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0661 • E-ISSN: 1460-3713 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354066199005004002 |
| OpenAlex | W2145349901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 20 |
By giving center stage to popular films rather than to IR theory, this article examines the processes of political evacuation and disciplinary incorporation as they occur to postmodernism and feminism in relation to the discipline of IR, and particularly in relation to Wendtian constructivism and Jonesian gender. This approach enables me to pose two provocative (if necessarily illusive) questions — `What constitutes mainstream IR these days?' and `How is this mainstream socially, culturally and popularly constructed?' The article's contribution is threefold. It is familiarly `critical', for it draws critical attention to mainstream IR theory, whatever that may be. It is `functional', for it exceeds critique by demonstrating how IR blunts radical critiques like postmodernism and feminism, all the while pointing to their incorporated albeit politically evacuated remnants as evidence of the seriousness with which IR takes pluralized debate. And it is what I would term `everyday pedagogical', not because it uses popular films to illustrate IR examples but because by emphasizing the everydayness of film over the disciplinarity of IR it teaches us how the social, cultural and popular simultaneously enable and disable IR theory to `be
Aesthetics · Critical theory · Discipline · Epistemology · Feminism · International relations · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Seriousness · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Feminist International Relations
The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing
Political Speech in Fantastical Worlds
Disciplinary Seriousness in International Relations
Seeing beyond disciplines
Why IR needs theory/practice debates
Worlds beyond capitalism
The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory
Autoethnographic International Relations
The paradox of prevention in the Women, Peace and Security agenda
It's a Family Affair
International Relations as Rhetorical Discipline
The House of IR
Working towards critical realism
World Literature and World Politics
Handmaids' Tales of Washington Power
Lessons from Westeros
Feminist Creativities and the Disciplinary Imaginary of International Relations1
The dividing discipline
The “Man” Question in International Relations
Forget IR Theory
Understanding International Relations
International Theory
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
Good Girls, Little Girls, and Bad Girls
Where is Woman in International Relations? 'To Return as a Woman and Be Heard
International Relations Theory
Forget IR Theory
Different Communities / Different Realities / Different Encounters
Does ‘gender’ make the world go round? Feminist critiques of international relations
Continuing the Conversation
International Relations
Beyond Dichotomy
Seeing women, recognizing gender, recasting international relations
You Just Don't Understand
Well, what is the feminist perspective on Bosnia
| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |