The discipline as a field of struggle: the politics and the economy of knowledge production in international law

Rasulov, A. (2021) The discipline as a field of struggle: the politics and the economy of knowledge production in international law. In: Bianchi, A. and Hirsch, M. (eds.) International Law’s Invisible Frames: Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 180-199. ISBN 9780192847539 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192847539.003.0011)

Abstract

This chapter is an inquiry into the discipline of international law as a social form. What is that content which is contained within this form? What sort of social structure does it presume and enable? Taking as its point of departure the concept of knowledge production, this chapter develops a critical account of international law as a field of theoretical labour and ideological contestation. How is the process of knowledge-production in international law today actually set up? What are those basic products which it produces? What kind of added value does it add to them and how is this value extracted and appropriated in practice? This chapter seeks to explain the disciplinary politic that surrounds these and other related issues as a reflection of discursively sublimated inter-group conflicts, the ultimate object of which is the internal distribution of resources and the power to decide the intra-disciplinary division of labour.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Rasulov, Professor Akbar
• Authors: Rasulov, A.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Law
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• ISBN: 9780192847539
• Published Online: 01 December 2021
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• First Published: First published in International Law’s Invisible Frames: Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes: 180-199
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