Coming of age within 'implosion'

Bendfeldt, Luise, Clifford, Emily and Richards, Hannah 2024. Coming of age within 'implosion'. Review of International Studies 50 (3) , pp. 441-456. 10.1017/S0260210524000226

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Abstract

In a recent article, Maria Eriksson Baaz and Swati Parashar1 trace the continued salience of Eurocentrism in critical International Relations (IR), demonstrating how the ‘master’s outlook’ continues to stifle the study of global politics; they ultimately encourage an unsettling and even implosion of the discipline. Starting from this proposed ‘implosion’ of critical IR, this article reflects on our hopes, as two current PhD candidates and one early career researcher in global politics, for teaching and learning in this future world. We begin by reflecting on our own complicity in reproducing the Western-centrism of the discipline and consider how this discomfort can be used productively. The article then considers the radical potential of the classroom and the necessity of empathetic, collaborative inquiry to the future of the discipline of global politics. We advocate for an IR which is imaginative, relational, messy, and vulnerable – and are hopeful about how this may animate a meaningful and sustainable implosion. Embracing our discomfort and the possibility of failure, we hope to contribute to the ongoing ‘unsettling’ of academia from the standpoint of incipient feminist scholars and hopeful early-career teachers.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0260-2105
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 June 2024
Date of Acceptance:	23 February 2024
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2024 10:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169651

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