Everyday practice and IR.

Along with the domestic-foreign frontier, the distinction between public and private spheres of human activity constitutes a fundamental tool for delineating that which constitutes International Relations. In this paper, I argue that the visibilization of non-hegemonic voices requires that such boundaries be broken, primarily due to the constraints that asymmetrical relations of power and hegemony place upon marginal points of view in the field. In particular, I explore the everyday world and quotidian practice as privileged spaces in which to observe peripheral forms of knowledge. Making use of conceptual insights derived from feminist and postcolonial thinking, among others, I discuss the importance of such non-monolithic spaces for bringing into focus new questions and issues occulted by dominant IR discourses. In this sense, everyday life is observed as the principal site of agency for marginal voices, in which the indeterminate nature of power/knowledge relations can be brought to light. Finally, the paper analyzes distinct ways in which globalization links quotidian practices to national, regional and global processes. I conclude that the examination human activity taking place in everyday life constitutes an important tool for a comprehensive understanding of global politics today, in particular in the periphery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]