1st Edition

Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics Creativity and Transformation

Edited By Shine Choi, Anna Selmeczi, Erzsébet Strausz Copyright 2020
    334 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    334 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book develops an approach to both method and the socio-political implications of knowledge production that embraces our embeddedness in the world that we study. It seeks to enact the transformative potentials inherent in this relationship in how it engages readers. It presents a creative survey of some of the newest developments in critical research methods and critical pedagogy that together go beyond the aims of knowledge transfer that often structure our practices. Each contribution takes on a different shape, tone and orientation, and discusses a critical method or approach, teasing out the ways in which it can also work as a transformative practice. While the presentation of different methods is both rigorously practice-based and specific, contributors also offer reflections on the stakes of critical engagement and how it may play an important role in expanding and subverting existing regimes of intelligibility. Contributions variously address the following key questions:

    • What makes your research method important? How can others work with it?
    • How has research through this method and/or the way you ended up deploying it transformed you and/or your practice?
    • How did it matter for thinking about community, (academic) collaboration, and sharing ‘knowledge’?

    This volume makes the case for re-politicizing the importance of research and the transformative potentials of research methods not only in ‘accessing’ the world as an object of study, but as ways of acting and being in the world. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, critical theory, research methods and politics in general.

    prelude

    three locations

    studying in world politics / a reading guide

    Erzsébet Strausz, Shine Choi and Anna Selmeczi

    In(ter)ferences

    this book you are holding

    Anna Selmeczi, Erzsébet Strausz, Shine Choi

    breathe

    Ephemeral language: communicating by breath

    Marijn Nieuwenhuis

    re-tell

    Untraining critique and the power of performance

    Catherine Charrett

    Connecting with Others

    The labor of political theatre as embodied politics: A conversation

    Richa Nagar and Anna Selmeczi

    Para-citations: fragments on the law and lore of genre

    Sam Okoth Opondo

    feel (the edges)

    Beyond a classroom: Experiments in a post-border praxis for the future

    Koni Benson and Asher Gamadze

    Anticolonial intimacies: How I learned to stop worrying about IR and start teaching politics

    Himadeep Muppidi

    A presence (m)otherwise

    Sara Motta

    Teaching about sexual violence in war

    Kimberly Hutchings

    Self-contact – the basis of presence

    Nicholas Janni

    cut

    Decolonizing visual ethnography: A transdisciplinary intervention

    Rohan Kalyan

    The drone cut-up project

    Trevor McCrisken and Erzsébet Strausz with images and film by Ben Cook

    Pull Toy

    re-form

    An exercise in questions and conversation: Does creativity need to be evaluated?

    Shine Choi and Debbie Lisle

    Trying not to write an academic book (while at the same time trying to write one)

    Marysia Zalewski

    How do you make yourself a chapter without organization?

    Phil Gaydon, Conor Heaney, Hollie Mackenzie, and Iain MacKenzie

    support

    The practice of queer method in International Relations

    Cynthia Weber interviewed by Anna Selmeczi and Erzsébet Strausz

    Colouring LEP

    The politics of images: a pluralist methodological framework

    Roland Bleiker

    Collage as an empowering art-based feminist method for IR

    Saara Sarma

    trans-script

    editing collage

    Biography

    shine choi teaches Politics and International Relations at Massey University. She is also Associate Editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics and Co-editor of the book series, Creative Interventions in Global Politics with Rowman & Littlefield.

    Anna Selmeczi is Lecturer and Programme Convener of the Masters in Southern Urbanism at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.

    Erzsébet Strausz is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Central European University, Hungary.