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Michael J. Shapiro - Discourse, culture, violence (Paperback, New)
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Michael J. Shapiro - Discourse, culture, violence (Paperback, New)
Series: Routledge Innovators in Political Theory
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Michael J. Shapiro's writings have been innovatory with respect to
the phenomena he has taken to be political, and the concomitant
array of methods that he has brilliantly mastered. This book draws
from his vast output of articles, chapters and books to provide a
thematic yet integrated account of his boundary-crossing
innovations in political theory and masterly contributions to our
understanding of methods in the social sciences. The editors have
focused on work in three key areas: Discourse Shapiro was one of
the first theorists to demonstrate convincingly, and in a manner
that has had a long-standing impact on the field, that language is
not epiphenomenal to politics. Indeed, he shows that language is
constitutive of politics. From his frequently-cited article on
metaphor from the early 1980s to recent work on discourse and
globalization, Shapiro has shown that politics happens not only
with and through the use of language, but within discourse as a
material practice. Culture Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba's (1963)
famous work on 'The Civic Culture' established a long-held but
ultimately counterproductive relationship between culture and
politics, one in which culture is an independent variable that has
effects on politics. Samuel Huntington's (1998) (in)famous polemic,
'The Clash of Civilizations', only pushes this relationship to its
breaking point. Shapiro's rich and numerous writings on culture
provide a powerful and important antidote to this approach, as
Shapiro consistently shows (across wide-ranging contexts) that
politics is in culture and culture is in politics, and no
politically salient approach to culture can afford to turn either
term into a causal variable. Violence While violence is surely not
a theme foreign to political studies, no one has done more or
better work in contemporary political theory to bring violence into
play as a central term of political thought and to expand our
understanding of violence. By reconceptualizing and reinterpreting
this term, Shapiro's work has helped us to rethink the very
boundaries between political theory and international relations as
putatively separate subfields of political science. And it explains
why both political theorists interested in International Relations
and International Relations scholars concerned with a broader
understanding of international politics must both start with
Shapiro's work as required reading.
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