Beyond Dichotomies: A Reflexive Engagement of Critical Reflexivity

dc.contributor.authorHendershot, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-12T17:29:07Z
dc.date.available2008-08-12T17:29:07Z
dc.date.issued2005-05
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of the following paper is to critically engage Mark Neufeld’s claim, “it is only by exposing the limitations of positivism that a space can be created for alternative forms of theorizing about international politics.” My engagement of this statement involves three related assertions. Firstly, I contend that one can construct an effective argument that reaffirms – and indeed is inflected with – postpositivist assertions that exposing the ‘limitations of positivism’ will create the necessary space for ‘alternative forms of theorizing’. However, I also argue that Neufeld’s construction of theoretical reflexivity explicitly/implicitly works to (re)ontologize a dichotomous relationship between positivist and post-positivist approaches to International Relations. Hence, I challenge the potential to which Neufeld’s conceptions can work as space clearing exercises so long as such exercises proceed through a dichotomized framing process.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/1350
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/documents/WP28-Hendershot.pdf
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherYCISSen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries28en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.yorku.ca/yciss/
dc.subjectpositivismen
dc.subjectMark Neufelden
dc.subjecttheoretical reflexivityen
dc.titleBeyond Dichotomies: A Reflexive Engagement of Critical Reflexivityen
dc.typeWorking Paperen

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