Posthuman international relations : complexity, ecologism and global politics / Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cudworth, Erika, 1966- author.

Hobden, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the 'hazards' of nature, and thus remains constrained by its blinkered 'human-centred' approach. Furthermore, as a means of predicting major global-political events and trends, it has failed consistently. Instead, the authors argue, it is essential we develop a much more nuanced and sophisticated analysis of global political systems, taking into account broader environmental circumstances, as well as social relations, economic practices and formations of political power. Essentially, the book reveals how the study of international politics is transformed by the understanding that we have never been exclusively human. An original work that is sure to provoke heated debate within the discipline, Posthuman International Relations combines insights from complexity theory and ecological thinking to provide a radical new agenda for a progressive, twenty-first century, International Relations.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introducing complexity and posthumanism to international politics

Chapter 2. Complexity theory in the study of the social world

Chapter 3. Complex international systems

Chapter 4. Emergent features in international systems

Chapter 5. Complex ecologism

Chapter 6. The politics of posthumanism

Chapter 7. For a posthuman international relations

Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786613355096

9781350221857

1350221856

9781780322216

1780322216

9781283355094

1283355094

9781848135161

1848135165

OCLC:

772535435