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This paper makes use of conceptual insights derived from hermeneutics, postcolonial and feminist thinking to discuss the importance of everyday experience for knowledge building and bringing into focus new questions and issues occulted by dominant IR discourses. All three perspectives to the category of experience, in which everyday life plays a fundamental role, as epistemology. Individuals occupying distinct loci of enunciation articulate research problems and methods in divergent ways, while their standards for judging knowledge are also highly variable. I argue that the idea of theory as everyday practice, by stressing theory's agency rather than its use as a tool, leads to important questions concerning who are authorized speakers of IR and who are not, how certain issues achieve importance as objects of study while others do not, and what is the purpose of theory itself. In consequence, understanding theory as a way of life requires rethinking the spaces in which global politics take place and examining the space of IR theory as a social practice that is situated in geographical, institutional, cultural and historical terms.

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Tickner, Arlene. "IR Theory as Everyday Practice" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70766_index.html>

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Abstract: This paper makes use of conceptual insights derived from hermeneutics, postcolonial and feminist thinking to discuss the importance of everyday experience for knowledge building and bringing into focus new questions and issues occulted by dominant IR discourses. All three perspectives to the category of experience, in which everyday life plays a fundamental role, as epistemology. Individuals occupying distinct loci of enunciation articulate research problems and methods in divergent ways, while their standards for judging knowledge are also highly variable. I argue that the idea of theory as everyday practice, by stressing theory's agency rather than its use as a tool, leads to important questions concerning who are authorized speakers of IR and who are not, how certain issues achieve importance as objects of study while others do not, and what is the purpose of theory itself. In consequence, understanding theory as a way of life requires rethinking the spaces in which global politics take place and examining the space of IR theory as a social practice that is situated in geographical, institutional, cultural and historical terms.

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Everyday experience as IR theory Arlene B. Tickner Political Science Department Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia atickner@uniandes.edu.co Paper presented at the ISA annual meeting Honolulu Hawaii March 2-5 2005 The role of everyday life in knowledge has a long history in Western and non-Western social thought. Recognizing that theory is rooted in lived experience implies that meaningful sense-making activities take place at all levels of social life and are not necessarily limited to what is normally defined as
Vol. 52 No. 4 Autumn pp. 687-727. Walker R.B.J. (1993). Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Warnke Georgia. 1987. Gadamer Hermeneutics Tradition and Reason Cambridge: Polity Press. Williams Adebayo. 1997. "The Postcolonial Flaneur and other Fellow-Travellers: Conceits for a Narrative of Redemption " Third World Quarterly Vol. 18 No. 5 pp. 821-841. Zalewski Marysia. 1996. "'All These Theories Yet the Bodies Keep Piling Up': Theories Theorists Theorising " in Steve Smith Ken Booth Marysia Zalewski


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