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- Offers thorough metatheoretical and theoretical work that connects various insights gained from political philosophy and political sociology
- Problematizes the very idea of a boundary between the empirical and the non-empirical
- Questions notion such as ‘world’, ‘reality’, ‘the empirical’, ‘time’, ‘mind’, ‘body’ and is situated in a radical postmodern/poststructuralist mode of theorizing
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Reality and Difference
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Hegemony and Social Change
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Crisis and Change in the “War on Terror”
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"For anyone interested in a deeper appreciation of crisis discourses, this thought-provoking book is a must-read. Nabers meticulously challenges established notions of crisis and change in International Relations and illustrates how the current limits of the field restrict IR scholars' grasp of the fundamental relationship between crisis and change. Without understanding their interrelationship, argues Nabers, IR scholars cannot help but fail to address pressing issues in today's world. Drawing on insights from Marxism, feminism, and poststructuralism, he develops a discourse of crisis and change that emphasizes contingency and process. As such, those invested in exploring the limits of IR to make room for alternative global politics will also find plenty of insights here." - Annick T.R. Wibben, Associate Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco and the author of Feminist Security Studies: A Narrative Approach (2011)
"Many of us believe the social is in a permanentcrisis and is dissolving. Dirk Nabers' book urges us instead to understand differently the relation between social change, politics, and democracy by introducing the key notions of contingency, dislocation, antagonism, and heterogeneity. By confronting International Relations with political theorists like Habermas, Derrida, and Laclau, this book, with great success, permits us to reconnect the question of the social with the one of the international" Didier Bigo, Professor of War Studies, King's College London, UK
"Nabers has perfected a rigorous quantitative method of analyzing political speeches and other official narratives....This is a theoretically sophisticated book, which has the potential to be a canonical work in IR theory" - David B. MacDonald, Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph, Canada
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Poststructuralist Discourse Theory of Global Politics
Authors: Dirk Nabers
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137528070
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52806-3Published: 06 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55263-4Published: 21 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52807-0Published: 07 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 272
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political History, Social Philosophy