Doty: A Reply to Colin Wight

Doty, RL. 1999. “A Reply to Colin Wight.” European Journal of International Relations 5:387.

Doty defends the article that Wight criticizes. Firstly, by identifying that a plurality of readings is possible, and that one reading of a given text is not necessarily the only possible reading. This is a broad point about the texts in that he criticizes her, and his reading of her text. She also criticizes him putting her in the “post-structural” category. She said that she was proving “a post-structural gaze” and nothing definitive.

Also, Doty criticizes Wight’s understanding of “undecidablitiy” as derived from Derrida. Wight seems to think that undecidability is a non-decision, when Doty argues that it is infact most helpfully understood as a present.