1st Edition

Autobiographical International Relations I, IR

Edited By Naeem Inayatullah Copyright 2011
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Falling and Flying: An Introduction Naeem Inayatullah  1. Accidental Scholarship and the Myth of Objectivity Stephen Chan  2. Objects among Objects Jenny Edkins  3. Stammers between Silence and Speech Narendran Kumarakulasingam  4. Scenes of Obscenity: the Meaning of America under Epistemic and Military Violence Khadija F. El Alaoui  5. I, the Double Soldier: An Autobiographic Case-Study on the Pitfalls of Dual Citizenship Rainer Hülsse  6. Weakness Leaving My Body: An Essay on the Interpersonal Relations of International Politics Jacob L. Stump  7. Waiting for the Revolution: A Foreigner’s Narrative Alina Sajed  8. Am I not that? At the feet of Elders Sara-Maria Sorentino  9. Listening for the Elsewhere and the Not-yet: Academic Labor as a Matter of Ethical Witness Lori Amy  10. To Realize You're Creolized: White Flight, Black Culture, Hybridity Joel Dinerstein  11. Goodbye Nostalgia! In Memory of a Country that has Never Existed as such Wanda Vrasti  12. Shaping Walls: Moving through Lanka’s Forts  Nethra Samarawickrema  13. Three Stories: A Way of Being in the World Patrick Thaddeus Jackson  14. G(r)azing the fields of IR: Romping Buffaloes, Festive Villagers Quỳnh Phạm & Himadeep Muppidi  - The Sound of Conversation Sorayya Khan  - Epilogue: Cosmography Recapitulates Biography: An Epilogue Peter Mandaville

Biography

Naeem Inayatullah