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Book SynopsisCritical 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, and offering both an overview of the existing state of critical international politics and an agenda-setting collection that highlights emerging areas and fosters future research. Sections cover: critique and the discipline; relations beyond humanity; art and narrative; war, religion and security; otherness and diplomacy; spaces and times; resistance; and embodiment and intimacy.
An international group of expert scholars, whose contributions are commissioned for the volume, provide chapters that facilitate teaching at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level, inspire new generations of researchers in the field and promote col
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"Jenny Edkins, whose research is in the vanguard of Critical International Relations scholarship, has assembled a remarkable and inspirational set of interventions; if you want a snapshot of both enduring and latest debates about what it might mean to be "critical" in the study of international politics then you need look no further than this tour de force." Nick Vaughan-Williams, Professor of International Security, University of Warwick, UK
"This handbook is a rare and timely intervention to convey that IR cannot afford to be ‘business as usual’. At the heart of the critical project in IR is the desire to recover and reclaim the ‘human’ in the (un)making of political life. The chapters in this handbook achieve the same in the nuanced unfolding of their distinctive narratives. Edkins deserves special appreciation for the refreshingly different and perceptive set of authors she has managed to bring together for this volume. A must read for IR students and anyone interested in alternative visions of world politics. " Swati Parashar, Gothenburg University, Sweden
"Placing criticality at center stage, this rousing volume oxygenates International Relations scholarship with its collection of excellent chapters that probe both the limits and the potential of Critical IR. It will be an indispensable resource for all students and scholars of IR who want to think creatively about the world(s) that we study, produce and inhabit." Maria Stern, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
