POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Post-Structuralism, Postcolonialism, Cartography

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: De Larrinaga Miguel

Document Summary

Poststructuralism & the discipline of international relations. Ontological assumptions of the state as a rational and unitary. Epistemology power/knowledge: renounce the possibility of an objective position outside of art , in terms of international relations from which to judge it to speak the truth about art. Realists purport to stand apart from the state and speak the truth about ir. Poststructuralism practice: genealogy: history of the present . Traces back in time where and how certain ideas, concepts, How they marginalized others and becoming the state of institutions originated affairs what is . A form of history which historicizes those things which are thought to be beyond history, including those things or thoughts which have been buried, covered over, or excluded from view in the writing and making of history. Knowledge is situated in, and conditioned by, a political and historical context and constrained to function with particular concepts and categories of knowledge. Reveals how ideas and concepts become naturalized.