ABSTRACT
The different categories of reflexivity are the positionality, critique and practice that focus primarily on how reflexivity matters for the subject matter, for the research, and for the implications of research. Reflexivity may be increasingly common in international relations (IR) research, but it often remains a murky reference to various forms of autobiographical influence on the research process. As a methodology, reflexivity finds its origins in Anthropology. Within that discipline there exists extensive debate about the methodological, political and ethical issues involved in reflexive research. Part of the point in bringing reflexivity into IR is to encourage awareness of how research is an important part of critique and carries consequences for political action. Research about the Jewish Diaspora is a type of social criticism in large part because it is reflexive, and it is reflexive because it is a type of social criticism.
