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Autobiographical International Relations - I, IR (Paperback)
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Autobiographical International Relations - I, IR (Paperback)
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This volume provides a novel approach to international relations.
In the course of fifteen essays, scholars write about how life
events brought them to their subject matter. They place their
narratives in the larger context of world politics, culture, and
history. Autobiographical International Relations believes that the
fictive distancing associated with academic prose creates
disaffection in both readers and writers. In contrast, these essays
demonstrate how to reengage the "I" while simultaneously sustaining
theoretical precision and historical awareness. Authors highlight
their motives, their desires, and their wounds. By connecting their
theoretical and practical engagements with their needs and wounds,
and by working within the overlap between theory, history, and
autobiography, these essays aim to increase the clarity, urgency,
and meaningfulness of academic work. These essays are
autobiographical, but focused on the academic aspect of authors'
lives. Specifically, they are set within the domain of
international relations/global politics. They are theoretical, but
geared to demonstrate that theoretical decisions emerge from
theorists' needs and wounds. Theoretical precision, rather than
being explicitly deduced, is instead immanent to the
autobiographical and the historical/cultural narrative each author
portrays. And, these essays are framed in historical/cultural
terms, but seek to bind together theory, history, culture, and the
personal into a differentiated and vibrant whole. This book moves
the field of International Relations towards greater candidness
about how personal narrative influences theoretical articulations.
No such volume currently exists in the field of international
relations.
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