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2010.
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This article queries the place of autoethnography in the study of International Relations as it relates to questions of truth, power, and ethics. The traditional denial of the authorial presence of the self in IR scholarship has been increasingly challenged in recent years, and autoethnography is perhaps the most obvious example of this. This article utilises autoethnography to explore some of the pitfalls and dilemmas associated with the approach - particularly the dangers surrounding 'standpoint' epistemologies, and the need to continue to distinguish between scholarship and storytelling. The article does not dismiss these concerns, but seeks to illustrate the ways in which the discipline is already engaged in storytelling as it narrates its own history and development. At the same time, the article seeks to 'guard against a generation of novelists' whose training would inevitably devolve into a question of crafting the 'prettiest sentence.' Mindful of these concerns, the article nevertheless seeks to demonstrate the ethical value of autoethnography in its exploration of the limitations of academic voice and its impact on those we write, the truths we are able to recognise and transcribe, and the ways in which the academic voice silences the self, who is forced to hide or minimise the often very personal motivations for engaging in IR scholarship. It argues that purposeful autoethnography should have a place among the diverse approaches to IR.
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159876
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This article explores the recent expansion of narrative approaches in international relations (IR) and the conceptual and political possibilities it brings about. Instead of suggesting a set of criteria through which we should evaluate narrative texts, we investigate what they are already doing in IR scholarship. We show that the space which narrative writing delineates through the encounter between text and reader/reading potentiates critique and engages complexity in ways that are often not available in other forms of IR scholarship. Concretely, we examine themes around openness, contradiction, ambiguity, fracture, surprise, and the ungovernable aspects of social and scholarly life.
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122653
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2013.
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This article engages in a reflection on the author's recently published book, The Politics of Exile. Of central concern are questions surrounding how restrictions on writing constrain the creative process; how we can access the lives and deaths of those with whom we share no temporal space; and how we can enact responsibility toward the pasts that we inherit and that shape our contemporary lives in other times and places. At stake are the issues of what social science does, for whom, and for what purposes. The author contends that, while not all personal or narrative writing is reflexive or transformative, social scientists have the opportunity to rethink writing in fundamental ways with the purpose of offering up alternative sites and forms of inquiry.
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