Epistemologies of Peace: Poetics, Globalization, and the Social Justice Movement

TitleEpistemologies of Peace: Poetics, Globalization, and the Social Justice Movement
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsAgathangelou, Anna M., and Kyle D. Killian
JournalGlobalizations
Volume3
Issue4
Pagination459-483
ISSN1474-7731
AbstractPoetics, as an epistemological approach, articulates alternative imaginaries to those proffered by the neoliberal world order. With a long history of drawing upon various sites to further its aims (e.g. the academy, the international studies association, political parties, the state), the neoliberal world order has used its epistemologies to constitute a hegemony emphasizing the state as the primary actor of political life. Feminists and scholars in postcolonial IR, black studies, and ethnic studies have challenged this idea, arguing that there are differential epistemological economies in world politics. Larger questions at stake in these different sites/cites include self and collective knowledge of marginal peoples and the envisioning of alternative, oppositional histories of decolonization, struggle and contestation. Traditional disciplinary boundaries become sites/cites of contestation about the forging and making of alternatives as academics, grassroots organizers, and activists, through poetics, work together to creatively engage questions of economies, power, history, and subject-formations.
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14747730601022453
DOI10.1080/14747730601022453
Short TitleEpistemologies of Peace
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