Narrative global politics : theory, history and the personal in international relations / edited by Naeem Inayatullah and Elizabeth Dauphinee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inayatullah, Naeem, editor.

Dauphinee, Elizabeth, editor.

Series:

Interventions (Routledge (Firm))

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

International relations--History.

History.

Identity politics.

World politics.

Globalization.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

This volume harnesses the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics. It comprises a prologue, an epilogue, and sixteen chapters that both build upon and diversify the success of the 2011 volume Autobiographical International Relations. Here, as in that volume, academics place their narratives in the context of world politics, culture, and history. Contributors explore moments in their academic lives that are often inexpressible in the standard academic voice and which, in turn, require a different way of writing and knowing. They write in the belief that academic IR has already begun to benefit from a different kind of writing-a style that retrieves the "I" and explicitly demonstrates its presence both within the world and within academic writing. By working within the overlap between theory, history, and autobiography, these chapters aim to increase the clarity, urgency, and meaningfulness of academic work. Highlighting the autoethnographic and autobiographic turn in critical international relations, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars in international relations, IR theory and global politics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Permitted urgency: a prologue / Naeem Inayatullah Inayatullah, Naeem, Elizabeth Dauphinee Dauphinee, Elizabeth 1

2 The reluctant immigrant and modernity / Randolph B. Persaud Persaud, Randolph B. 5

3 Dissolutions of the self / Vèronique Pin-Fat Pin-Fat, Vèronique 25

4 Simultaneous translation: finding my core in the periphery / Manuala L. Picq Picq, Manuala L. 35

5 The intimate architecture of academia / Paulo Ravecca Ravecca, Paulo 51

6 The banality of survival / Aida A. Hozic Hozic, Aida A. 64

7 Letters to Yvonne: words and/as worlds / Sam Okottf Opondo Opondo, Sam Okottf 73

8 Your East Africa, my Pacific Northwest: a commercial view of Tanzania from an unfamiliar vantage / Donnell Alexander Alexander, Donnell 87

9 Loss of a loss: Ground Zero, Spring 2014 / Jenny Edkins Edkins, Jenny 97

10 Contradictions / Nicholas Onuf Onuf, Nicholas 104

11 "Was will das Weib?" Politics, film, desire / Ruth Halaj Reitan Reitan, Ruth Halaj 122

12 What might still sputter forth / Kevin C. Dunn Dunn, Kevin C. 139

13 Auto/bio/graph / Paul Kirby Kirby, Paul 153

14 The smell of wood: recuperating loss in a country of forgetting / Charmaine Chua Chua, Charmaine 159

15 Immobility, intimacy, movement: translating death, life, and border crossings / Richa Nagar Nagar, Richa 171

16 Suicide, the only politically worthy act / Dan Öberg Öberg, Dan 191

17 Dancing modernity: an epilogue / Cory Brown Brown, Cory 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138182660

1138182664

OCLC:

937368084