Norm(alising) Narratives in IR

Abstract

Norms are components of powerful discourses in global politics. What actors perceive as the ‘right’ or the ‘natural’ thing to do is down to hegemonic norm narratives. The papers in this panel adopt a critical perspective towards international norm narratives and explore how such narratives emerge and work in global politics. The questions posed include for example: How are norm narratives constructed and under which conditions do they gain hegemony in the global political sphere? How do specific narratives in international politics produce the norms they display? How do norms, in turn, work to conceal the working of power in the international politics? In other words, what power relations and practices are naturalized by norm narratives? And to what extent might we as scholars be complicit in stabilizing hegemonic norm narratives by writing about world politics? Moreover, how are internationally hegemonic narratives contested and resisted in local settings? The panel addresses these questions from two perspectives: Papers might look at the emergence, hegemonisation and productivity of norm narratives on the global level. On the other hand, papers might focus on the proliferation of globally hegemonic norm narratives to local settings and explore the struggles and re-articulations that take place in these contexts. The papers explore these issues from several theoretical perspectives ranging from critical constructivism over world society approaches to poststructuralist scholarship

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When the Premodern is Postmodern. Hobbes, Lacan and the Making of the International System	View Paper Details
‘Writing Norms’ - Norm Diffusion as Scholarly Practice	View Paper Details
The International as Politico-Normativity: Conferences and the Social Institutionalisation of Politics	View Paper Details
Normalising Difference? Practicing Civil-Military Coordination in CSDP	View Paper Details
Discourse, Normative Change and the Quest for Reconciliation in Global Politics: Emergence of a Reconciliation Narrative	View Paper Details
Constructing "bad norms" narratives - an exploration	View Paper Details