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The Power of Words in International Relations - Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse (Paperback)
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The Power of Words in International Relations - Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse (Paperback)
Series: Politics, Science, and the Environment
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The role of discursive power in shaping international relations
analyzed through the lens of whaling politics. In the second half
of the twentieth century, worldwide attitudes toward whaling
shifted from widespread acceptance to moral censure. Why? Whaling,
once as important to the global economy as oil is now, had long
been uneconomical. Major species were long known to be endangered.
Yet nations had continued to support whaling. In The Power of Words
in International Relations, Charlotte Epstein argues that the
change was brought about not by changing material interests but by
a powerful anti-whaling discourse that successfully recast whales
as extraordinary and intelligent endangered mammals that needed to
be saved. Epstein views whaling both as an object of analysis in
its own right and as a lens for examining discursive power, and how
language, materiality, and action interact to shape international
relations. By focusing on discourse, she develops an approach to
the study of agency and the construction of interests that brings
non-state actors and individuals into the analysis of international
politics. Epstein analyzes the "society of whaling states" as a set
of historical practices where the dominant discourse of the day
legitimated the killing of whales rather than their protection. She
then looks at this whaling world's mirror image: the rise from the
political margins of an anti-whaling discourse, which orchestrated
one of the first successful global environmental campaigns, in
which saving the whales ultimately became shorthand for saving the
planet. Finally, she considers the continued dominance of a now
taken-for-granted anti-whaling discourse, including its creation of
identity categories that align with and sustain the existing
international political order. Epstein's synthesis of discourse,
power, and identity politics brings the fields of international
relations theory and global environmental politics into a fruitful
dialogue that benefits both.
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