Beury, Manon and Holzer, Lena. 2022. Orientations as a 3-Dimensional Tool for Practising Positionality in International Law. LAW Working Paper, 2022(4), ISSN 1725-6739 [Article]

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This conversation draws on Sara Ahmed’s work on queer phenomenology and orientations to engage in a reflection about positionality in the work of international lawyers. The paper starts by discussing how we have come to think about positionality, before attempting to apply the four characteristics of Ahmed’s model of orientation, perception, arrival, doing things and inhabiting spaces, to our own object of research. Finally, we explore the value of disorientation in our research, followed by some afterthoughts. As we try to portray a more complex and nuanced depiction of our own positionality, we eventually sketch the contour lines of a threedimensional tool for conceiving positionality in international legal research. Through this tool, positionality is understood as the relationship between the researcher and their object of study in the space of international law.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4105550
Additional Information:	Suggested Citation: Beury, Manon and Holzer, Lena, Orientations as a 3-Dimensional Tool for Practising Positionality in International Law (2022). EUI Department of Law Research Paper No. 2022/04, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4105550 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4105550
Keywords:	Reflexivity, positionality, orientations, international law, feminist research, queer theory
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Law
Dates:	Date Event 1 April 2022 Accepted 13 May 2022 Published
Item ID:	32585
Date Deposited:	17 Nov 2022 16:02
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2022 16:02
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32585

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