Gender Knowledge and Knowledge Networks in International Political Economy

This volume explores the apparent gender neutrality of knowledge generation and dissemination through knowledge networks in various subfields of International Political Economy. The contributions present the gender knowledge concept, which starts from the assumption that every form of knowledge is based upon a specific form of gender knowledge. That knowledge is power and that traditional knowledge has been constructed in the interests of the powerful has been a critique of contemporary feminist scholarship from the start.
The novelty of the individual contributions in this book address not so much the gendered effects of different policies but rather to understand the imprint “gender knowledge” leaves both on the academic knowledge justifying and underpinning the policies and normative assumptions of the policy community.
Focusing on gender knowledge as a research agenda is all the more important, since at the Lisbon summit of the EU Council in 2000 it was agreed to make the European Union ‘globally the most competitive knowledge-based economy’ by 2010. The key question is: What is the epistemic and philosophical foundation of the knowledge economy and through what channels and networks is the scientific knowledge disseminated? Who decides what knowledge is, where the knowledge is produced, and who are the knowledge producers?

The authors: Marina Blagojevic, Ulrich Brand, Gülay Çaðlar, Rosalind Cavaghan, Pia Eberhardt, Rachel Kurian, Elisabeth Prügl, Christoph Scherrer, Helen Schwenken, Diane Stone, Thanh-Dam Truong, Eleni Tsingou, Brigitte Young