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- This piece explores the foundational theories and methods of feminist research related to conflict, violence, and peace, emphasizing the importance of critical debate.
- It discusses how traditional academic structures often limit the understanding and production of feminist knowledge, particularly within International Relations, due to its roots in positivism and exclusion.
- The article advocates for incorporating Black and decolonial feminist methods, emphasizing collaboration, storytelling, and acknowledging the complexity and uncertainty in knowledge production rather than focusing solely on accumulating data.
Article Abstract
This piece offers a space for critical debate and reflection on the methodological and epistemological foundations that underpin feminist research on conflict, violence and peace. Taking stock of the variety of approaches and theoretical standpoints, we examine the (feminist) politics of knowledge production in academia and its limitations. We discuss how ontological and epistemological assumptions shape what counts as (feminist) academic knowledge and what is considered to be possible in (policy) practice. The article makes three contributions. First, we argue that the production of knowledge within disciplinary boundaries, and in particular, International Relations, is closely related to the discipline's history of positivism and exclusion. Second, to counter that, we propose a close engagement with Black and decolonial feminist methods of feeling-knowing, storytelling and collaboration. Third, we highlight that embracing uncertainty means accepting incommensurability and heterogeneity, as well as a shift away from the urge to accumulate knowledge towards paying attention to the process of co-constructing it.
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