This book offers a non-Western feminist perspective on world
politics and international relations. Creative, innovative, and
challenging, it seeks completely to transform contemporary
Eurocentric and masculinist IR by re-presenting it in non-Western,
non-masculinist, and non-academic terms. Drawing on Daoist
dialectics, the stories of Sihar and Shenya aim to redress such
hegemonic imbalance by completing the IR story. To the yang of
power politics, this book offers a yin of fairy-tale. (Both are
equally fantastical but to different purposes.) To the yang of
binary categories like Self vs Other, West vs Rest,
hypermasculinity vs hyperfemininity, Sihar and Shenya show their
yin complementarities and complicities, inside and out, top and
bottom, center and periphery. And to the yang of intransigent
hegemony, Sihar & Shenya explores the yin of emancipation
through porous, water-like thought and behavior through venues like
aesthetics and emotions. From this basis, we begin to see another
world with another kind of politics. Written with students of IR
and world politics in mind, this book offers a postcolonial bridge
for IR/WP. Following an academic introduction to assist the reader,
Ling moves away from traditional scholarship and into three
interlocking fables: Book I shows what an alternative world could
look and feel like. Book II makes the implications for IR/WP more
explicit. It draws on the traditional Chinese notion of the five
movements (wu xing) -- fire, metal, earth, wood, and water -- to
illustrate iconic elements of IR/WP -- power, wealth, security,
love, and knowledge -- and how they could change according to
circumstance and context. Epilogue/Introduction: The Return brings
the reader back into the Western world and focuses on modern-day
PhD student Wanda who is troubled by what she is learning, and
searches for a different perspective. Engaging with the substantive
problematiques at the heart of international relations studies,
this work is a unique and innovative resource for all students and
scholars of international relations and world politics.
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