Subvert International Relations.

Contributions from feminist economics

Abstract

We debate on International Relations (IR) as an analytical discipline and as a field of professional training, to expose its androcentric and patriarchal substrate, as well as its commitment to the reproduction of an economic and political perspective that legitimizes the private accumulation of wealth, naturalizing the world order that enables these exploitation processes. In contrast, we propose to incorporate a different view, political and experiential, that emerges from a critical feminist economy to support and enhance other rationalities, actors, jobs, and modes of relationship. We conceive that this intersection allows the field of study and practice of IR to be fertilized by giving prominence to questions, themes, and processes that until today are conceived as marginal and that are characterized by putting the sustainability of human and non-human life at the center. Our commitment, as a study and research group, is to subvert IR by expanding its current horizon through research and development of other ways of conceiving our object of study, thereby transforming the orientation of our practice as social scientists and teachers.