This volume harnesses the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics. It comprises a prologue, an epilogue, and sixteen chapters that both build upon and diversify the success of the 2011 volume Autobiographical International Relations. Here, as in that volume, academics place their narratives in the context of world politics, culture, and history. Contributors explore moments in their academic lives that are often inexpressible in the standard academic voice and which, in turn, require a different way of writing and knowing. They write in the belief that academic IR has already begun to benefit from a different kind of writing—a stylae that retrieves the "I" and explicitly demonstrates its presence both within the world and within academic writing. By working within the overlap between theory, history, and autobiography, these chapters aim to increase the clarity, urgency, and meaningfulness of academic work. Highlighting the autoethnographic and autobiographic turn in critical international relations, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars in international relations, IR theory and global politics.
... welfare state. 'There are people and interests behind narratives who bring narratives into the world. But these individuals give birth to narratives only within the confinements of the available discursive possibilities' (Fischer 2003 ...
This book presents an innovative approach to research in International Relations by examining 12 theoretical contributions to the field as competing narrative bids.
Madeleine Albright, 19971 China's current reputation for power benefits from projections about the future. Some young Chinese use these projections to demand a greater share of power now. Feeling stronger, they demand greater ...
In this book, Mayer shows that humans are, if nothing else, a story-telling, story-consuming animal.
consequence, and in contrast to euro accession, the cutting edge of the euro as an external discipline was blunted. (Dyson 2009, 4) Even before the beginnings of the euro crisis in 2009, Dyson suggests that there was not a sustained ...
This book presents an innovative approach to research in International Relations by examining 12 theoretical contributions to the field as competing narrative bids.
A cutting-edge contribution to the aesthetic turn in international relations scholarship, this book exposes the role of poetic techniques in constituting the reality of international politics.
They may relate stories in great detail, with all the trimmings, or they may tell radically truncated stories, ... Some use “narrative” for those tales that purport to represent facts and reserve “story” for those that are openly ...
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.
This book offers a comprehensive account of Turkey's foreign policy narratives in a period of global power shifts.