Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781032240817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Brent Steele; Harry Gould; Oliver Kessler

Opis

This is a book on methods, how scholars embody them and how working within, from or against constructivism has shaped that use and embodiment.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Interpreting Constructivism  1. Third Generation Constructivism: Between Tactics and Strategy  2. A Tactical Guide to Conceptual Analysis  3. Social Constructivism and Actor-Network Theory: Bridging the Divide  4. Tactics of a Constructivist Pedagogy  Part II: Discourse, Interpretation and Methods  5. Narrative Analysis as a Tactical Bridge  6. Identities as Tactics: Exposing Relational Foreign Policy as Story  7. Constructivism, Computational Social-Relational Methods, and Multiple Correspondence Analysis  Part III: Constructivism and the Interpretive Methods of the Self  8. When Home is Part of the Field: Experiencing Uncanniness of Home in Field Conversations  9. A Reflexivity that Works for Us: Ethics Beyond Norms  10. Feminist Curiosity as Method: On (Limits to) Tactical Uses of Constructivism  11. Researching within the Instability of Meaning: Decolonial Voices and Practices  12. Constructing a Scholar on the Road Less Travelled  13. Tactics All The Way Down: The Politics of Exteriority in Constructivism  Part IV: Construction and the Interpretation of History and Texts  14. How To Do (Differing) Things With Words: World-Making and (or) Meaning-Making  15. Stubbornly Stumbling into Making History: Constructivism and Historical International Relations

O autorze

Brent J. Steele is Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA.

Harry D. Gould is Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University, USA.

Oliver Kessler is Associate Professor at the University of Erfurt, Germany.