At the "Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations: Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities", International Graduate Conference 2011, Frankfurt, 16th-18th June 2011 (see post below) we organize a panel on:
Political Practice and Third World/Feminist Approaches to International Institutions
Abstract:
While the two disciplines of International Relations (IR) and International Legal Scholarship (ILS) are in search of new impulses, recent "critical" debates in both fields seem to share common theoretical and methodological points of reference. Both refer to law and international institutions respectively by emphasizing what they have deemed "the political". Yet, one could also argue that these approaches have been upholding a kind of Western, male-dominated hegemony. Arguing in the traditions of post-colonialism and feminism, scholars in ILS and IR have criticized this and tried to introduce non-Western/feminist thought into the debate. We intend to build on the parallels observed in both fields and look for possible convergences within a framework of interdisciplinary thinking, aiming for a new critical perspective. One of the arenas could be international organizations, where this hegemony has been tangible.
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Katja Freistein/Philip Liste
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