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Fairy Tales and International Relations - A Folklorist Reading of IR Textbooks (Hardcover)
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Fairy Tales and International Relations - A Folklorist Reading of IR Textbooks (Hardcover)
Series: Worlding Beyond the West
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This book offers a critical engagement with contemporary IR
textbooks via a novel folklorist approach. Two parts of the
folklorist approach are developed, addressing story structures via
resemblances to two fairy tales, and engaging with the role of
authors via framing gestures. The book not only looks at how the
idea of 'social science' may persist in textbooks as many
assumptions about what it means to study IR, but also at how these
assumptions are written into the defining stories textbooks tell
and the possibilities for (re)negotiating these stories and the
boundaries of the discipline. This book will specifically engage
with how the stories in textbooks constrain how it is possible to
define IR through its (re)production as a social science
discipline. In the first part, story structures are explored via
Donkeyskin and Bluebeard stories which the book argues resemble
some structures in textbooks that define how it is permissible to
tell stories about IR. In the second part the role of authors is
explored via their framing gestures within a text, drawing on a
number of fairy tales. By approaching the stories in textbooks
alongside fairy tales, Starnes reflects back onto IR the
disciplining practices in the stories textbooks tell by rendering
them unfamiliar. Aiming to spark a critical conversation about the
role of textbooks in defining the boundaries of what counts as IR
and by extension the boundaries of the IR canon, this book is of
great interest to students and scholars of international relations.
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