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Forgetting Ourselves - Secession and the (Im)possibility of Territorial Identity (Paperback)
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Forgetting Ourselves - Secession and the (Im)possibility of Territorial Identity (Paperback)
Series: Innovations in the Study of World Politics
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Secession is one of the richest veins yet to be mined in
international relations. The unexplored concept of secession
implicates a host of historical accomplices related to the
development of industrial modernity and considerable changes in the
nature of sovereignty and the state. By historicizing secession it
becomes possible not only to explain the historical transformations
that have led to the theoretical impasse on secession but to better
articulate the possibilities for current transformative
interactions. In Forgetting Ourselves, Linda Bishai thoroughly
examines why secession has been ignored by international relations
both in theory and practice. Mainstream perspectives in
international relations theory have, up to this point, questioned
neither state formation nor the inside/outside divide of state
sovereignty. Bishai, however, historicizes and questions the
concept of secession itself, and the component assumptions of
territoriality and identity upon which it rests. Forgetting
Ourselves places secession in its proper historical context as
something possible only in the modern era and only perceived as a
global threat within the last century. Bishai argues that
understanding the historic contingency of secessionist conflict
allows us to contemplate an alternative vision of international
relations in which the violence associated with controlling
territory is no longer necessary for validating political
identities.
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