How Can We Criticize International Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6274891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastian Schindler (0000-0003-2092-7252, Goethe University Frankfurt), Tobias Wille (0000-0001-8716-3045, Columbia University & Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1014-1024 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isq/sqz057 |
| OpenAlex | W2968987257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 81 |
In this article, we elaborate two distinct ways of criticizing international practices: social critique and pragmatic critique. Our argument is that these two forms of critique are systematically opposed to each other: They are based on opposing epistemic premises, they are motivated by opposing political concerns, and they pursue opposing visions of social progress. Scholars of International Relations (IR) who want to work with the conceptual tools of practice theory are thus confronted with a consequential choice. Understanding the alternatives can help them to be more self-reflexive in their research practices and intervene more forcefully in contemporary political debates. We illustrate these advantages through a discussion of the scholarly debate on the practices of multilateral diplomacy through which the United Nations Security Council authorized a military intervention in Libya in 2011
Argument (complex analysis · Diplomacy · Economics · Epistemology · International relations · International relations theory · Intervention (counseling · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Vision · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security
When Can We Know Practices? Rules, Logics, and Epistemologies of Practice in IR
Trust and calculation in international negotiations
Critical international politics at an impasse
The Practice of Alliance‐Building
Never Again? Mass Atrocity Early Warning Practices in the UN Secretariat
Towards a ‘theory of the gap’
America's Pragmatic Role
Pragmatism in IR
A threat rather than a resource
Anti-gender Normativity and Advocacy in Turkey – Making a Case for Practice Diffusion
William Hague’s activist foreign policy
The task of critique in times of post-truth politics
How can documents speak about practices? Practice tracing, the Wikileaks cables, and diplomatic culture
Field Overlaps, Normativity, and the Contestation of Practices in China's Belt and Road Initiative
Communities of Practice in World Politics
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices
A Feminist Critique of International Practices
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations
The turn to turns in International Relations
The populist challenge to multilateral diplomacy
Archeology as a critical mode of inquiry in global politics
International identity construction
Pierre Bourdieu, Colonial Experiences, and Methodological Reflexivity in International Relations
Practice Theory and International Relations
Opting Out of the European Union
The Politics of Expertise
International Practice Theory
Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations
The End of Progress
Studies in ethnomethodology
Normative Theory in International Relations
Making sense of “international practices”
Black Rights/White Wrongs
Conclusion
Rethinking Ideology
Culture and Security
International Practices
International Security in Practice
Bodies of Violence
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The International Political Sociology of Security
Culture and Power
The Craft of Sociology
Gender Trouble
The search for dialogue as a hindrance to understanding
Orders of worth and the moral conceptions of health in global politics
Change in and through practice
International practices
Do we really need reflexivity in IPE? Bourdieu's two reasons for answering affirmatively
Bourdieu, the state and method
Assembling credibility
Pierre Bourdieu and the Birth of European Defense
Social Forces, States and World Orders
Performative States
Advancing a Reflexive International Relations
Practising gender, queering theory
Symbolic power in diplomatic practice
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
The practice of everyday life
International Pecking Orders
Frames of war
Sobjectivism
Charting the Ethics of the English School
Practice Theory and Relationalism as the New Constructivism
What Should Be Done? Pragmatic Constructivist Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect
On Acting and Knowing
Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics
An ideology critique of recognition
Strategies of critique in International Relations
Diplomacy, agency, and the logic of improvisation and virtuosity in practice
Territory, authority, expertise
We have never been civilized
The logic of habit in International Relations
The Spread of Security Communities
The purpose of United Nations Security Council practice
Reflective practices at the Security Council
Dangerous Liaisons
Reflectivity, reflexivity, reflexivism
Power in practice
The Play of International Practice
Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Micro-moves in International Relations theory
Parsing the Practice Turn
Change in international practices
Returning Practice to the Linguistic Turn
Saving face in diplomacy
On Critique
Towards a Reflexive Sociology
The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations1
Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations
Actor-Network Theory' and International Relationality
Theory Must Not Go on Holiday. Wittgenstein, the Pragmatists, and the Idea of Social Science
Returning Struggles to the Practice Turn
On Justification and Critique
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
| Unique citing works | 23 |
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| Citations per year | 3,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |