Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781138089761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 254 str.

Brent J. 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