Feminist Methodologies for International Relations

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 15
1 Feminist methodologies for International Relations......Page 17
Defining our terms......Page 22
The outline of this volume......Page 24
Part I: Methodological conversations between feminist and non-feminist IR......Page 25
Part II: Methods for feminist International Relations......Page 26
Part III: Methodologies for feminist International Relations......Page 30
Conclusions......Page 31
Part 1 Methodological conversations between feminist and non-feminist IR......Page 33
2 Feminism meets International Relations: some methodological issues......Page 35
Feminist perspectives on methodology......Page 37
Feminist research asks feminist questions......Page 38
Use women's experiences to design research that is useful to women......Page 41
Reflexivity......Page 43
Knowledge as emancipation......Page 44
Evidence of these methodological perspectives in feminist IR......Page 46
Sex Among Allies......Page 47
In service and servitude......Page 49
Feminist reservations about quantitative research......Page 53
Conclusion......Page 56
Methodology: a personal story......Page 58
Methodology: a "fairy tale"......Page 61
Methodology: a feminist Groundhog Day?......Page 64
Methodology: working with feminist distractions......Page 67
Methodology: forgetting feminist distractions......Page 71
Time for feminist methodology?......Page 75
4 Inclusion and understanding: a collective methodology for feminist International Relations......Page 78
Epistemology and methodology......Page 79
The need for a collectivist feminist account of science......Page 80
A pragmatist approach to theorizing the scientific collective......Page 84
Problems with pragmatist collectivism......Page 87
A feminist collectivist approach......Page 88
Redistributive measures......Page 89
Inclusive decision rules......Page 90
Descriptive representation......Page 91
More objections: objectivity, positivism, foundationalism......Page 96
Constructive versus deconstructive strategies......Page 98
Feminist practice: the global movement against gender violence......Page 100
Conclusion......Page 102
Part 2 Methods for feminist International Relations......Page 105
Follow the metaphor......Page 107
Naming it......Page 108
Doing it......Page 110
Asking it......Page 112
"Getting it"......Page 117
Studying up and "listening to the material"......Page 119
Listening......Page 120
Ending......Page 123
Introduction......Page 124
Deconstructing the "silence" of gender relations......Page 125
Deconstructing silences......Page 126
Hegemonic masculinity......Page 127
The "silence" of Swedish conscription......Page 128
Learning about gendered practices through symbols and procedures......Page 133
Women's presence makes norms of hegemonic masculinity visible......Page 134
Women's knowledge in institutions of hegemonic masculinity......Page 136
Working with interviews and narratives......Page 137
The woman at arms challenges hegemonic masculinity......Page 139
The contribution of the IR researcher......Page 142
Concluding thoughts......Page 144
7 Marginalized identity: new frontiers of research for IR?......Page 145
Background......Page 151
Who is the Other? Whom do the women represent? Who speaks? Who has the experience?......Page 153
How should I write about the women? As victims or as survivors?......Page 156
Fieldwork methodology and methods: in search of silent/silenced history?......Page 157
Methodological solutions to ethical dilemmas......Page 160
Political or personal?......Page 164
Analysis and audience......Page 165
Final reflections: IR, marginal sites, and marginalized people......Page 167
8 From the trenches: dilemmas of feminist IR fieldwork......Page 169
Qualitative over quantitative......Page 171
Motivations......Page 172
The interview......Page 176
Reciprocity, transparency, and involvement......Page 182
Concluding remarks......Page 187
Introduction......Page 190
The subject of security......Page 192
Finding a theoretical/methodological framework......Page 194
A feminist standpoint of security?......Page 196
Security as a discursive practice?......Page 197
What is a text?......Page 199
Co-authorship......Page 201
Creating a text......Page 202
The first interview......Page 203
Ethics: doing research in a post-colonial context......Page 205
Problems of definition: identifying "(in)security" in the texts?......Page 207
Reading and analyzing the texts......Page 209
Implications for IR......Page 211
Concluding comments......Page 212
Part 3 Methodologies for feminist International Relations......Page 215
10 Bringing art/museums to feminist International Relations......Page 217
Gazing......Page 219
Clues from portraiture......Page 223
Clues from still lifes......Page 225
Clues from abstractions......Page 227
Welcome to the museum......Page 228
The Guggenheim phenomenon......Page 229
Power marbles......Page 231
Twin towers of international relations......Page 232
Filling in the sketches......Page 234
Introduction......Page 237
Ontology: personal and social relations......Page 239
Politics: the ethics/power relationship......Page 242
Methods of feminist moral inquiry......Page 246
Critical moral ethnography: the ethic of care and South African social policy......Page 251
Mapping geographies of responsibility: care-giving and care-receiving in the new global economy......Page 254
Conclusion......Page 255
Introduction......Page 257
Critical IR and feminist IR......Page 261
A feminist critical methodology for International Relations......Page 263
Sociological analysis......Page 265
Normative inquiry......Page 268
Practical reflection......Page 269
The method......Page 271
Conclusion: a better IR theory......Page 276
Conclusion......Page 277
Bibliography......Page 280
Index......Page 319