Writing with Foucault: openings to transformational knowledge practices in and beyond the classroom

IF 1.8 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Critical Studies on Security Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.1080/21624887.2022.2134698
Erzsébet Strausz
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ABSTRACT This article engages questions of authority and authorship in the discipline and the IR classroom, driven by a search for affirmative horizons within critical scholarship and academic practice. Prompted by a series of ‘failures’ attached to the social and disciplinary performance of ‘expertise’ in the context of violent conflict, I explore the practice of writing as it unfolds from Michel Foucault’s lesser cited essays and interviews as a generative, creative resource. I follow Foucault in breaking down the normalised perceptions of the ‘author function,’ revealing writing as an act that diagnoses, discovers, and potentially transforms writer, reader and the social structures that the writing addresses. Foucault’s experimental ethos brings to light the complex life worlds of sense-making through the vehicle of writing. It also invites us to embrace the transgenerational heritage that quietly structures our relationships to knowledge together with the multiple selves that arise and are co-present in the text. I enter such processes of negotiation and transgression in Foucault’s work and my own writing through a series of vignettes, which aim to actualise the ‘method’ these gestures may harbour for making ‘uncommon sense’ and re-inhabiting research and pedagogical practice as continuous, self-reflexive and self-authori(zi)ng journeys.
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与福柯一起写作:向课堂内外的转型知识实践敞开大门
本文通过在批判性学术和学术实践中寻找积极的视野,探讨了学科和IR课堂中的权威和作者身份问题。在暴力冲突的背景下,一系列与“专业知识”的社会和学科表现相关的“失败”促使我探索米歇尔·福柯(Michel Foucault)较少被引用的文章和访谈中展现的写作实践,将其作为一种生成的、创造性的资源。我跟随福柯,打破了对“作者功能”的常态化看法,揭示了写作是一种诊断、发现并潜在地改变作者、读者和写作所涉及的社会结构的行为。福柯的实验精神通过写作的媒介揭示了复杂的生活世界。它还邀请我们拥抱跨代遗产,它悄悄地构建了我们与知识的关系,以及在文本中出现并共同存在的多重自我。我通过一系列的小插曲,在福柯的作品和我自己的写作中进入了这样的谈判和越界的过程,这些小插曲旨在实现这些姿态可能隐藏的“方法”,以制造“不寻常的意义”,并将研究和教学实践作为连续的、自我反思的和自我创作的旅程重新居住。
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