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- Title
The "UFO Taboo" Is What IR Theorists Make of It: "Sovereignty and the UFO" in Citational Perspective.
- Authors
Murphy, Michael P. A.
- Abstract
In 2008, Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall published an article titled "Sovereignty and the UFO," which demonstrated how a UFO taboo in international relations theory upheld an anthropocentric model of sovereignty. At a distance of a decade and a half, this review evaluates the validity of the claim that a UFO taboo exists in international relations, and explores the citational practices that influence the prestige economy of the field. The article employs a methodology of interpretive scientometrics informed by methodological debates in political science and international, as well as theoretical debates in actor-network theory. After testing the claim of the UFO taboo in a comparative perspective, the article investigates the strategies of association (weak and strong) present in the citations of "Sovereignty and the UFO." In addition to a revaluation of core claims in an often-read but less-often-cited article in international relations theory, this article provides important insights into how citation works in the discipline of international relations.
- Subjects
UNIDENTIFIED flying objects; INTERNATIONAL relations theory; ACTOR-network theory; TABOO; SOVEREIGNTY; POLITICAL science; OCCUPATIONAL prestige
- Publication
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2024, Vol 49, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
0304-3754
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/03043754231219831