Von Selbstreflexion zu Hegemonieselbstk...

While self-reflexivity certainly is useful when aiming to reconsider our thinking about and acting in international politics, it can also function as a hegemonic practice of containing radical critique. The author introduces approaches from critical peace studies, post- and decolonial as well as feminist theory that deal with this dilemma. Taking the dimension of epistemic violence and the coloniality of power, knowledge and being into account, she argues that the widely professionalized and pacified field of peace and conflict studies can learn from these perspectives in order to re-enhance positionality vis-à-vis a global system of inequality and violence.