Fairy Tales and International Relations: A Folklorist Reading of IR Textbooks

ISBN-13: 9780367889531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str.

Kathryn Starnes

Opis

This book offers a critical engagement with contemporary IR textbooks via a folklorist approach. There are two parts of the folklorist approach developed, one addressing story structures via resemblances to two fairy tales, and the second engaging with the role of authors via framing gestures. In the first part, story structures are explo

Spis treści

1 Introduction

2 Canon as a link between fairy tales and textbooks

3 A folklorist approach

4 Donkeyskin stories: the permissible

5 Bluebeard stories: the forbidden

6 Author framing and canon negotiations

7 Conclusion

O autorze

Kathryn Starnes completed a PhD in International Relations at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include knowledge production in IR, practices that define and discipline IR, folklore, fairy tales and the politics of writing about and teaching IR.