Feminist experiences of ‘studying up’: Encounters with international institutions
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Publication Date
2019Journal Title
Millennium: Journal of International Studies
ISSN
0305-8298
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Volume
47
Issue
2
Pages
210-230
Type
Article
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Holmes, G., Wright, K., Basu, S., Hurley, M., De Almagro, M., Guerrina, R., & Cheng, C. (2019). Feminist experiences of ‘studying up’: Encounters with international institutions. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 47 (2), 210-230. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818806429
Abstract
<jats:p> This article makes the case for feminist IR to build knowledge of international institutions. It emerges from a roundtable titled ‘Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist IR: Researching Gendered Institutions’ which took place at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Baltimore in 2017. Here, we engage in self-reflexivity, drawing on our conversation to consider what it means for feminist scholars to ‘study up’. We argue that feminist IR conceptions of narratives and the everyday make a valuable contribution to feminist institutionalist understandings of the formal and informal. We also draw attention to the value of postcolonial approaches and multi-site analyses of international institutions for creating a counter-narrative to hegemonic accounts emerging from both the institutions themselves, and scholars studying them without a critical feminist perspective. In so doing, we draw attention to the salience of considering not just what we study as feminist International Relations scholars but how we study it. </jats:p>
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European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (706888)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818806429
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287903
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