Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781138907225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 364 str.

Jenny Edkins

Opis

Critical international relations is both firmly established and rapidly expanding, and this Handbook offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary research. It affords insights into exciting developments, more challenging issues, and less prominent topics, examining debates around questions of imperialism, race, gender, ethics and aesthetics.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Critique and the Discipline  1. Imperialism and the limits of critique  2. How to criticize without ever becoming a critic  3. The empty neighbourhood: Race and disciplinary silence  Part II: Relations Beyond Humanity  3. Can International Relations confront the cosmos?  4. Relating to relational worlds: Critical theory, relational thought and relational cosmology  5. Confronting horror: International Relations beyond humanity  Part III: Art and Narrative  6. For Alex: The art of International Relations  7. Ways of Seeing/Ways of Being in Critical IR  8. Narrative and inquiry in international politics  Part IV: War, Religion, Security  9. Critical war studies  10. Being ‘Critical’ of/about/on ‘Religion’ in International Relations  11. Seeing radicalisation? The pedagogy of the Prevent strategy  Part V: Otherness and Diplomacy  12. The politics of otherness: Illustrating the identity/alterity nexus and othering in IR  13. Abusive Fidelities: Diplomacy, Translation, and the Genres of Man  14. Why Octavio Paz matters: Lessons for critical International Relations  Part VI: Spaces and Times  15. Racing to the bottom, squeezing through the cracks: Imagining unbordered space  16. Ethics, critique and post-sovereign spaces in International Politics  17. Critique and the international: Horizons, traces, finitude  Part VII: Resistance  18. The permutations of ‘taking’ political action  19. The carnivalesque and resistance  Part VIII: Intimacy and Embodiment  20. Bodies and embodiment in IR  21. The intimate and the international: love, sexuality, and queer feminist IR  22. Henri Lefebvre and the production of theory: A ghost story

O autorze

Jenny Edkins is Professor of Politics at The University of Manchester. She taught previously at Aberystwyth University and the Open University. Her monographs include Face Politics (2015), Missing: Persons and Politics (2011), Trauma and the Memory of Politics (2003) and Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid (2000). Her most recent book, Change and the Politics of Certainty, is forthcoming with Manchester University Press. In addition to her academic writing, she explores fiction, autobiography and other literary forms. She is engaged in several collaborative ventures, including the Gregynog Ideas Lab and the highly-regarded Routledge book series Interventions.