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Is all ‘I’ IR? / Naumes , Sarah

Naumes , Sarah	Article
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Narrative approaches to International Relations have steadily increased in popularity in recent years. As narrative has gained further acceptance among other methodological traditions in International Relations, it has also provoked questions about the sort of restrictions that should be placed on academic writing in general and narrative writing in particular. Narrative approaches have faced challenges that ask whether they allow room for critique or if they necessarily turn into standpoint epistemologies. This author views narrative approaches as both valid and necessary in addition to the stable of other methods utilised in International Relations scholarship. However, in order for narratives to contribute effectively, they must be subject to critique. This article proposes two questions that both authors and readers should ask when engaging with narrative: 1) Does the narrative disrupt notions of congruity in political thought? Does it bring to light contradictions that may otherwise be ignored? 2) Does the narrative make room to incorporate those who have been excluded from political science discourse? Through asking these questions, International Relations scholars who utilise narrative approaches can open the field to novel lines of inquiry.

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International Relations Theory ; Methodology ; Autoethnography ; Method ; Narrative Writing

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Writing as hope: reflections on the politics of exile / Dauphinee, Elizabeth

Dauphinee, Elizabeth	Journal Article
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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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Ethics ; Responsibility ; Six Day War ; International Relations - Case Studies ; Narrative Writing ; Storytelling Theory

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