Soreanu, R (Soreanu, Raluca); Hudson, D (Hudson, David) Feminist scholarship in international relations and the politics of disciplinary emotions MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 37 (1): 123-151 2008

[Eugene Garfield]

Email Address: r.soreanu at ucl.ac.uk

Author(s): Soreanu, R (Soreanu, Raluca); Hudson, D (Hudson, David) 

Title: Feminist scholarship in international relations and the politics of 
disciplinary emotions 

Source: MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 37 (1): 123-151 2008 

Language: English 

Document Type: Article 

Author Keywords: citation analysis; creativity; disciplinarity; emotion; 
feminism; gender; love; marginality; Millennium; Randall Collins 

Keywords Plus: SOCIOLOGY-OF-PHILOSOPHIES; CITATION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; IR; 
CONSTRUCTIVISM; QUESTIONS; COLLINS 
Abstract: The article engages with the relationship between feminist 
scholarship and the discipline of International Relations. Taking a step 
back from the recurrent concerns with marginality and those with the 
absent feminist revolution in IR, we recast the problem of the complicated 
menage between feminism and the field of IR as a case of a failure to 
love. Drawing on the sociology of thinking of Randall Collins and his 
theory of interaction ritual chains, we read the logic of practice in 
intellectual fields as one rooted in emotion. In this framework, we 
theorize citation practices as bearing the trace of intellectuals' emotion-
loaded coalitions of the mind. The article maps out the intellectual 
coalitions in IR with respect to the feminist question by reconstructing 
the citation networks emerging from the special issue of Millennium, 
published in 1988 on 'Women in IR'. The maps we put together are read as 
snapshots of the emotional economy of IR, allowing further reflection 
about the status of feminist scholarship in IR, about intellectual 
creativity and about change and stasis in our discipline. We conclude that 
it is IR which is in trouble, not feminists, with regard to creative 
potential. Feminists are not marginal in or to IR; instead they are part 
of a ring of creativity connecting the emotional energies of different 
disciplinary fields. 

Addresses: UCL, Dept Polit Sci, London WC1E 6BT, England 

Reprint Address: Soreanu, R, UCL, Dept Polit Sci, London WC1E 6BT, 
England. 

Cited Reference Count: 81 

Times Cited: 0 

Publisher: MILLENNIUM PUBLISHING GROUP 

Publisher Address: LONDON SCHOOL ECONOMICS HOUGHTON ST, LONDON WC2A 2AE, 
ENGLAND 

ISSN: 0305-8298 

DOI: 10.1177/0305829808093768 

29-char Source Abbrev.: MILLENNIUM-J INT STUD 

ISO Source Abbrev.: Millennium-J. Int. Stud. 

Source Item Page Count: 29 

Subject Category: International Relations 

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