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Part II - Methods for feminist International Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2010

Brooke A. Ackerly
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University
Maria Stern
Affiliation:
Göteborg University
Jacqui True
Affiliation:
York University
Brooke A. Ackerly
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Maria Stern
Affiliation:
Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
Jacqui True
Affiliation:
University of Auckland
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In the first part we followed three different explorations into the question of feminist methodology in the field of IR. Building upon this conversation, each author of Part II presents her methodological dilemmas, decision-making processes, and research methods. In this second part, the organizing focus on ‘security’ enables us to illustrate just how broadly feminists interrogate even one IR concept, and some of the many feminist approaches they have developed for doing so. These approaches are not limited to applications in the area of security studies, but instead offer possible ways of designing and conducting a broad range of feminist studies of global politics. To explore questions of security in sites familiar and unfamiliar to IR disciplinary norms of inquiry, chapters use a variety of research methods, including oral history, ethnography, interviews, archival research, participant observation, and discourse analysis, in the service of different theoretical and epistemological approaches. Centrally, the contributors identify the limitations they faced in posing their feminist research questions within the theoretical frameworks demarcated by IR.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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