Recrafting International Relations by Worlding Multiply

Abstract

The contemporary IR craft homogenizes a pluriverse of time-spacescapes as if it were a “one-world world.” We propose a strategy of recrafting to engender a nimble discipline for actively encountering ‘the world multiply’ and a generation of scholars capable of engaging various forms of knowing/being/sensing/doing. Worlding multiply requires: (1) taking seriously the plurality of worlds that emerge through distinct existential assumptions and (2) learning how to translate/read across time-spacescapes built through incommensurate ways of doing/being without reducing one to the other. We suggest conscientiously developing tools—new skills, concepts, ways of being—for encountering complexity in both pedagogy and scholarship.

Keywords

Recrafting, Worlding, Ontology, Multiplicity

Citation

David L. Blaney And Tamara A. Trownsell, “Recrafting International Relations by Worlding Multiply”, Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol. 18, No. 70, 2021, pp. 45-62, DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.985929

Affiliations

• David L. BLANEY, Prof. Dr., Macalester College, Department of Political Science, USA
• Tamara A. TROWNSELL, Assoc. Prof. Dr., Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Department of International Relations, Ecuador