Feminist Experiences of ‘Studying Up’: Encounters with International Institutions

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...

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Published inMillennium Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 210 - 230
Main Authors Holmes, Georgina, Wright, Katharine A. M., Basu, Soumita, Hurley, Matthew, Martin de Almagro, Maria, Guerrina, Roberta, Cheng, Christine
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2019
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Academic disciplines
Attention
Conversation
Decolonization
Discourse analysis
Feminism
Hegemony
Institutionalization
Institutions
Intellectuals
International organizations
International relations
International studies
Narratives
Postcolonialism
Reflexivity
Feminist International Relations
instituciones internacionales
gender
genre
postcolonialism
género
institutions internationales
relations internationales féministes
relaciones internacionales feministas
international institutions
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0305-8298
1477-9021
DOI:10.1177/0305829818806429