Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology

ISBN-13: 9780415616324 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 152 str.

Elina Penttinen

Opis

This text develops new methodology for the study of international relations based on joy, informed by current thinking about physics and feminist theory. It comes out of a question about how our way of studying international relations from a feminist perspective would change if we start looking for what is working well, instead of what is wrong with the world.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Journey from Feminist International Relations Problem-Making Towards a Life Enhancing Approach  2. Heartfelt Positivity: A Non-Dualist Methodology for International Relations  3. War is an Unexamined Belief: Mindfulness as a Methodology for the Practice of IR  4. The stories We Live By: Finnish Female Police Officers in Security Roles  5. Healing and Wholeness in the Midst of Extreme Violence and War  6. Women are Always Victims of War, Is it True?  7. Posthumanist Experience of War: Readings of the Films Stormheart and The Men who Stare at Goats  9. Conclusions: Dreaming of Loving-Kindness and Shared Joy in the Field of International Relations

O autorze

Elina Penttinen is a University Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tampere, Finland. She is author of Globalization, Prostitution and Sex-Trafficking: Corporeal Politics (Routledge 2008).