Looking back to move forward: historicising the construction of disciplinary narratives in European Political Science and International Relations’

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dc.contributor.authorSavigny, Heatheren
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-05T10:27:44Z
dc.date.available2018-04-05T10:27:44Z
dc.date.issued2010-11
dc.description.abstractPolitics and International Relations (IR) tend to be discussed as separate disciplines. Rather than emphasising their shared divisions and methodological differences, dominant narratives separate the two, but these narratives also serve to reinforce and legitimate (to slightly differing degrees) the dominance of American positivism. As such, it is argued that if we are to understand the contemporary state of both disciplines, it is useful to reflect on their historical development. The aim of this article is (briefly) to map critically the development of Politics and IR as disciplines that, while having differing historical beginnings, have developed as parallel rather than integrated disciplines facing similar internal epistemological, methodological and cultural divisions. It is noted, however, that their parallel development is uneven, with challenges to the mainstream coming far earlier in IR than Politics, and as such opening the way for much greater acceptance of the notion of methodological pluralism in contemporary IR (outside the US) than in the study of Politics. Further, it is argued that the writing of histories of the disciplines thus far have served to legitimate and reinforce dominant Western conceptions of IR and Politics both descriptively and normatively.en
dc.funderN/Aen
dc.identifier.citationSavigny, H. (2010) ‘Looking back to move forward: historicising the construction of disciplinary narratives in European Political Science and International Relations’ EPS Special Ruby Red Issue to Celebrate the ECPR’s 40th Birthday: ‘Forty Years of European Political Science’ 9 Special Issue (ppss99-110) eds. Luis Sousa, Martin Bull and Jonathon Moses. ppS99-S110en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2010.39
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/15763
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherEuropean Political Scienceen
dc.researchinstituteMedia and Communication Research Centre (MCRC)en
dc.titleLooking back to move forward: historicising the construction of disciplinary narratives in European Political Science and International Relations’en
dc.typeArticleen

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