| ID | 140112 |
| Title Proper | Struggle over the identity of IR |
| Other Title Information | what is at stake in the disciplinary debate within and beyond academia? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Grenier, Felix ; Turton, Helen Louise ; Beaulieu-Brossard, Philippe |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Since the inception of International Relations (IR) within university departments, its disciplinary status has been the subject of constant debate. Yet, the current literature on ‘the state of the discipline’ silences this debate either through IR’s assumed disciplinarity or conflation of debates about theory with the existence of IR. This Forum moves beyond this literature by explicitly engaging whether IR is a discipline or not and by enquiring how this status matters. Contributors rely on the sociology and philosophy of social science to call into question or affirm the disciplinarity of IR to argue whether IR is as a subfield of Political Science, a full-blown and autonomous discipline, or a hybrid field of interdisciplinary studies. Furthermore, contributors reveal the implications of the different disciplinary statuses regarding the academic institution, interdisciplinary possibilities and modes of organizing IR. Overall, these contributions aim to engage rather than close the disciplinary debate, creating further space for reflection. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Relations Vol. 29, No.2; Jun 2015: p.242-244 |
| Journal Source | International Relations Vol: 29 No 2 |
| Key Words | Political Science ; Disciplinarity ; Sociology of knowledge ; Philosophy of Social Science ; Interdisciplinarity ; International Relations ; Interdisciplinary Studies ; State of the Discipline Subfield |