Introduction: Global(izing) International Relations: Studying Geo-Epistemological Divides and Diversity

Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Wiebke; Peters, Ingo

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“…A spin-off project of the more well-known TRIP, GP is a collaborative project between Germany and Japan that examines structuration and diffusion of knowledge within and among IR communities. 36 In order to uncover the dynamics of interdisciplinary relations and theoretical proliferation, the paper compares data from flagship journals of professional organisations in the United States, Europe/United Kingdom and Japan: International Studies Quarterly (ISQ) and International Organization (IO), European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) and Review of International Studies (RIS), and Kokusai Seiji (KS) and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (IRAP). A total of 1207 articles have been analysed from the six journals -300 for ISQ, 136 for IO, 185 for EJIR, 304 for RIS, 200 for KS and 82 for IRAP.…”

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“…This paper attempts to tackle these questions by drawing on data collected from American, European, British and Japanese journals during the period 2011-2015 as part of the Global Pathways project, a collaborative effort between Germany and Japan that examines the structuration and diffusion of knowledge within and among IR communities. 4 The main results of this paper are two folds. First, there is the familiar 'transatlantic divide' between American and European journals, but rather than simply on theoretical and methodological divergence, it is also over its interdisciplinary relations.…”

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Pluralism, plurality and interdisciplinary relations in IR: shifting theoretical directions

Ataka

2022

International Relations

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Despite concerns over the discipline’s state of ‘fragmentation’, there is no systematic empirical analysis of how this theoretical proliferation is driven by ‘importing’ from other fields. This paper attempts to fill this gap by analysing data collected from American, European, British and Japanese journals during 2011–2015. It argues that interdisciplinary relations are not only fuelling theoretical proliferation in the field but are also creating distinct directions for IR scholarship: a new ‘transatlantic divide’ between sub-disciplinary specialisation and broadening of the disciplinary contours in the English-speaking ‘core’, continued compliance with theoretical and methodological unity of the field in the non-English-speaking ‘semi-periphery’ and parts of the ‘periphery’, and a full embrace of interdisciplinarity in other parts of the ‘periphery’. These images each symbolise the direction that IR as a discipline is (or should be) heading, which will also imply a shift in what gets accepted as ‘IR’ in the coming decades.

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Pluralism, plurality and interdisciplinary relations in IR: shifting theoretical directions

Ataka

2022

International Relations

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“…When science involves a Center-Periphery relation, it is almost impossible to separate knowledge from the location where it is produced. Notably, some research ( Acharya, 2014 ; Wemheuer-Vogelaar and Peters, 2016 ; Alejandro, 2018 ) probed into the Western-dominated scholarly work in the discipline of International Relations (IR). For example, Wemheuer-Vogelaar and Peters (2016) revealed how the regional context shaped the academic practices of IR scholars, although they more often than not identified themselves with issue-based research communities crossing geographic boundaries.…”

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“…Notably, some research ( Acharya, 2014 ; Wemheuer-Vogelaar and Peters, 2016 ; Alejandro, 2018 ) probed into the Western-dominated scholarly work in the discipline of International Relations (IR). For example, Wemheuer-Vogelaar and Peters (2016) revealed how the regional context shaped the academic practices of IR scholars, although they more often than not identified themselves with issue-based research communities crossing geographic boundaries. It was reported that Western scholars (e.g., United States, Canada, and Western Europe) were more likely to eschew traditional paradigmatic analysis in their publications, whereas non-Western researchers (e.g., Latin America or East Asia) were almost twice as likely to choose Marxism as a theoretical framework.…”

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“The very interesting finding suggests that…”: A cognitive frame-based analysis of interest markers by authors’ geo-academic location in applied linguistics research articles

Wang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Linguistic expressions of interest instantiated by interesting, intriguing, and fascinating that signal the authorial stance are not uncommon in applied linguistics research articles. Nevertheless, they have received little scholarly attention. This paper, taking a cognitive semantic approach, reports on a study that sought to examine how linguistically expressed interest in applied linguistics research articles is leveraged by researchers’ geo-academic location (the Core vs. the Periphery). Drawing on a semantic frame generated for interest markers in academic writing, this study focused on the incidence of the various elements of the Interest frame in the discipline of applied linguistics based on a mixed-methods approach. The corpus-based quantitative analyses found that academic writers’ geo-academic location was a robust predictor of authors’ overall use of interest markers and some frame elements associated with the Interest frame. Triangulation with the interview data obtained from disciplinary specialists revealed that the observed differences could be attributable to the hierarchical academia featuring periphery-based scholars’ unequal access to the knowledge production market and under-representation.

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“…Geography plays a central role in the Global IR Debate (sometimes in the form of geo-epistemology [cf., Waever and Tickner 2009;Wemheuer-Vogelaar and Peters, forthcoming]). For example, the Global IR literature repeatedly categorizes scholars into "Western" and "non-Western," or regional and national schools (Hutchings 2011).…”

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The IR of the Beholder: Examining Global IR Using the 2014 TRIP Survey

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This article presents findings from the 2014 Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project's worldwide faculty survey that speak to recent claims in the Global International Relations (IR) Debate. The expansion of the 2014 TRIP faculty survey to thirty-two countries, including more than a dozen non-Western IR communities, enables an initial empirical assessment of some key questions raised by advocates and detractors of "Global IR." This contribution describes and analyzes scholars' own perceptions of the IR discipline and adds to the empirical literature on the Global IR Debate. In particular, we address three claims: that IR is a Western/American dominated discipline, that geography is the core dividing line in IR, and that there is a division of labor within IR wherein scholars in the West are responsible for theory production while the non-West supplies data and local expertise for theory testing. We believe that these findings shed light both on how the discipline came to be divided between dominant and marginalized discourses and in which areas this division is most embedded and/or ready to be dismantled.

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Introduction: Global(izing) International Relations: Studying Geo-Epistemological Divides and Diversity

Cited by 8 publications

References 56 publications

Pluralism, plurality and interdisciplinary relations in IR: shifting theoretical directions

Pluralism, plurality and interdisciplinary relations in IR: shifting theoretical directions

“The very interesting finding suggests that…”: A cognitive frame-based analysis of interest markers by authors’ geo-academic location in applied linguistics research articles

The IR of the Beholder: Examining Global IR Using the 2014 TRIP Survey

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