Citation

Agathangelou AM. Polit. Gender 2017; 13(4): 739-746.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S1743923X17000484

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Abstract

International relations (IR) feminists have significantly impacted the way we analyze the world and power. However, as Cynthia Enloe points out, "there are now signs--worrisome signs--that feminist analysts of international politics might be forgetting what they have shared" and are "making bricks to construct new intellectual barriers. That is not progress" (2015, 436). I agree. The project/process that has led to the separation/specialization of feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist global political economy (FGPE) does not constitute progress but instead ends up embodying forms of violence that erase the materialist bases of our intellectual labor's divisions (Agathangelou 1997), the historical and social constitution of our formations as intellectuals and subjects. This amnesiac approach evades our personal lives and colludes with those forces that allow for the violence that comes with abstraction. These "worrisome signs" should be explained if we are to move FSS and FGPE beyond a "merger" (Allison 2015) that speaks only to some issues and some humans in the global theater.

Language: en