Creating Knowledge by Editing a Handbook: A Self-Critical Reflection

Berit Bliesemann De Guevara; Katarzyna Kaczmarska; Xymena Kurowska; Birgit Poopuu; Andrea Warnecke

doi:10.1093/oso/9780192871145.003.0067

Creating Knowledge by Editing a Handbook: A Self-Critical Reflection

Berit Bliesemann De Guevara
, Katarzyna Kaczmarska
, Xymena Kurowska
, Birgit Poopuu
, Andrea Warnecke

Department of International Relations

Aberystwyth University
University of Edinburgh
Tallinn University
Leiden University

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In this chapter, the editors discuss the process of editing a handbook, and the many decisions and proactive strategies involved, as a particular set of epistemic practices. Through an epistemic actor lens, they reflect on their own roles and positionalities in this project and explore the wider power structures and epistemic inequalities which shape these positionalities. They trace how they tried to proactively address epistemic inequalities, but also how the context of knowledge production in the neoliberal global academy undermined some of these efforts. Ending on a relational note, they invite the readers of this handbook to understand the plural archive created as a starting point and an invitation to embrace collaboration as a critical moment in knowing the world.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics
Subtitle of host publication	a Handbook
Editors	Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Xymena Kurowska, Birgit Poopuu, Andrea Warnecke
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	1022-1033
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191967474
ISBN (Print)	9780192871145
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871145.003.0067
State	Published - Dec 2025

Keywords

Epistemic actor positionality
Epistemic practice
Ethics of care
Handbook
Knowledge co-production
Neoliberal global academia
Structural inequalities

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De Guevara, B. B., Kaczmarska, K., Kurowska, X., Poopuu, B., & Warnecke, A. (2025). Creating Knowledge by Editing a Handbook: A Self-Critical Reflection. In B. Bliesemann de Guevara, K. Kaczmarska, X. Kurowska, B. Poopuu, & A. Warnecke (Eds.), Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics: a Handbook (pp. 1022-1033). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871145.003.0067

De Guevara, Berit Bliesemann ; Kaczmarska, Katarzyna ; Kurowska, Xymena et al. / Creating Knowledge by Editing a Handbook : A Self-Critical Reflection. Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics: a Handbook. editor / Berit Bliesemann de Guevara ; Katarzyna Kaczmarska ; Xymena Kurowska ; Birgit Poopuu ; Andrea Warnecke. Oxford University Press, 2025. pp. 1022-1033

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De Guevara, BB, Kaczmarska, K, Kurowska, X, Poopuu, B & Warnecke, A 2025, Creating Knowledge by Editing a Handbook: A Self-Critical Reflection. in B Bliesemann de Guevara, K Kaczmarska, X Kurowska, B Poopuu & A Warnecke (eds), Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics: a Handbook. Oxford University Press, pp. 1022-1033. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871145.003.0067

Creating Knowledge by Editing a Handbook: A Self-Critical Reflection. / De Guevara, Berit Bliesemann; Kaczmarska, Katarzyna; Kurowska, Xymena et al.
Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics: a Handbook. ed. / Berit Bliesemann de Guevara; Katarzyna Kaczmarska; Xymena Kurowska; Birgit Poopuu; Andrea Warnecke. Oxford University Press, 2025. p. 1022-1033.

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