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Joy and International Relations A New Methodology

By Elina Penttinen Copyright 2013
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology. It examines how the mechanistic-deterministic worldview derived from the Newtonian model has influenced the epistemology and methodology of IR (i.e., the idea that the world is constituted of independent... Read more

1. Introduction: Journey from Feminist International Relations Problem-Making Towards a Life Enhancing Approach  2. Heartfelt Positivity: A Non-Dualist Methodology for International Relations  3. War is an Unexamined Belief: Mindfulness as a Methodology for the Practice of IR  4. The stories We Live By: Finnish Female Police Officers in Security Roles  5. Healing and Wholeness in the Midst of Extreme Violence and War  6. Women are Always Victims of War, Is it True?  7. Posthumanist Experience of War: Readings of the Films Stormheart and The Men who Stare at Goats  9. Conclusions: Dreaming of Loving-Kindness and Shared Joy in the Field of International Relations

Biography

Elina Penttinen is a University Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tampere, Finland. She is author of Globalization, Prostitution and Sex-Trafficking: Corporeal Politics (Routledge 2008).