POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hedley Bull, E. H. Carr, Postmodern Feminism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2200
• Professor: Cindy Clarke

Document Summary

Really no difference than the other post-modern scholars but pay more attention to gender and women etc. and as they relate to ir. Critical of the mainstreams faulty discourse euphemisms on war. Pmf"s sexual stereotypes does a similar thing that it warps understanding of things that we are trying to study we think of war in macho terms rather than really understanding it for what it actually is. Ships are always referred to as she and given a female. Bombers penetrate airspace - gendered language gendered name: all of this language diverts away from what we are. Refers to groups of scholars who started the british committee on the theory of international politics. Included many non-british scholars who started their careers working in american universities after wwii and chaffing under the dominant perspectives during this time. Specific methodology the behaviourists (number crunchers) sweeping through university departments and anyone who wasn"t doing statistical research was marginalized.