Wrestling power from the big, burly man in international relations
This dissertation interrogates the dominant realist concept of power to (re)surface critical questions about the way power is contextualised within the study of international relations. It employs a poststructuralist feminist research ethic that destabilises epistemology and transcends binary str...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76097 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This dissertation interrogates the dominant realist concept of power to (re)surface
critical questions about the way power is contextualised within the study of
international relations. It employs a poststructuralist feminist research ethic that
destabilises epistemology and transcends binary structures. This dissertation argues
that gender is embedded within the concept of power, in whichever form it manifests.
This embodiment reinforces a sort of masculine/feminine dichotomy so that the
feminine is immediately marginalised and ostracised. At its core, this dissertation aims
to discuss the implications (and violence) of gendering power, and seeks to reposition
the construct of power beyond its gendered productions, insofar as gender and sex are
themselves unstable binary structures. |
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