Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation

This article conceptualises the variety of approaches taken by International Relations (IR) scholars around world to dominant forms knowledge production in IR. In doing so, it advances Global IR debates along two axes: on practices and spatiality. We argue that binary conceptions are unhelpful engagement with is best captured a landscape complexity, requiring deeper interrogation positionality, globality context. Using 26 qualitative interviews academics at institutions East Asia, South Middle East, Eurasia Africa, we construct typology comprising seven modes capture conflicted relationships The intended highlight variation, complexity contextual particularities global enable an spatial hierarchies unsettle conventional geopolitical West/non-West fault-lines.