Beyond Dichotomies: A Reflexive Engagement of Critical Reflexivity
| dc.contributor.author | Hendershot, Chris | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-12T17:29:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-08-12T17:29:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/1350 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/documents/WP28-Hendershot.pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | YCISS | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Paper | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 28 | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/ | |
| dc.subject | positivism | en |
| dc.subject | Mark Neufeld | en |
| dc.subject | theoretical reflexivity | en |
| dc.title | Beyond Dichotomies: A Reflexive Engagement of Critical Reflexivity | en |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en |