| ID | 183216 |
| Title Proper | Introduction to the Special Issue |
| Other Title Information | the multiple births of International Relations |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Smith, Karen ; Thakur, Vineet |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Disciplinary histories are, by default, complicit in the production of subjective memories as truth. This Special Issue builds on the existing scholarship on rethinking IR's disciplinary history by expanding its geographical focus beyond the West, and explores how IR came to define itself as a self-contained body of knowledge that is distinct from other fields of study in different parts of the world. These alternative histories enable us to appreciate that the development of IR as a global discipline was only possible through a transnational circulation of key ideas such as sovereignty, empire, Commonwealth and, especially, competing notions of the ‘international’. In addition, they bring attention to the purpose of knowledge and the politics of its production, and allow for both democratisation as well as discursive plurality. |
| `In' analytical Note | Review of International Studies Vol. 47, No.5; Dec 2021: p.571 - 579 |
| Journal Source | Review of International Studies Vol: 47 No 5 |
| Key Words | Global South ; Post-Western IR ; IR Origins ; Disciplinary Histories |