摘要：Even if some scholars in international relations (IR) have engaged with ethnography since the 1980s, it remains a marginal approach in the discipline. Adepts of ethnography in IR struggle with reconciling this approach with disciplinary pressures to draw out of their fieldwork a broader significance for international politics. I argue that IR’s engagement with ethnography re-shapes what research and findings are for this discipline. To illustrate this, I explore racial stereotypes and language asymmetries in the context of my own fieldwork on gateway locations like Singapore and Vancouver. I show that these research challenges reveal how people in their daily lives experience the “international”. By problematizing these racial and linguistic borders, IR researchers may develop a better understanding of how the “international” is structured, hence re-locating IR research and findings within their own research struggles.
