“상시적 망각”과 “적극적 기억”의 국제정치학 = “Casual Forgetting” in and “Active Remembering” for IR

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Drawing on the insights from discourse advanced in Foucault’s 1969 work, Archaeology of Knowledge, this paper first problematizes the current state of International Relations (IR) theory in which a few theoretical perspectives dominate the epistemic terrain of the field, by serving as a ‘political’ yardstick of judging what counts as ‘scientific’ knowledge and ‘good’ research. Then this paper undertakes an “active remembering” of a theoretical perspective that is casually forgotten in the theoretical discussion about international politics, namely postcolonialism. The aim of “active remembering” is to illustrate epistemic and pratical benefits that postcolonialism can bring to us and to broaden the parochial status of IR scholarship. Furthermore, this paper puts on a postcolonialist lens to look at Korea’s international political issues in different ways to generate alternative approaches. In conclusion, this paper shows that although postcolonialism remains at the margins of contemporary IR scholarship, it can still make significant epistemic contributions to the study of IR and practical contributions to addressing the challenges that South Korea and East Asia face.