Written with students of IR and world politics in mind, this book offers a postcolonial bridge for IR/WP. Following an academic introduction to assist the reader, Ling moves away from traditional scholarship and into three interlocking fables:
- Book I shows what an alternative world could look and feel like.
- Book II makes the implications for IR/WP more explicit. It draws on the traditional Chinese notion of the five movements (wu xing) fire, metal, earth, wood, and water to illustrate iconic elements of IR/WP power, wealth, security, love, and knowledge and how they could change according to circumstance and context.
- Epilogue/Introduction: The Return brings the reader back into the Western world and focuses on modern-day PhD student Wanda who is troubled by what'she is learning, and searches for a different perspective.
Engaging with the substantive problematiques at the heart of international relations studies, this work is a unique and innovative resource for all students and scholars of international relations and world politics.
Written with students of IR and world politics in mind, this book offers a postcolonial bridge for IR/WP. Following an academic introduction to assist the reader, Ling moves away from traditional scholarship and into three interlocking fables:
- Book I shows what an alternative world could look and feel like.
- Book II makes the implications for IR/WP more explicit. It draws on the traditional Chinese notion of the five movements (wu xing) fire, metal, earth, wood, and water to illustrate iconic elements of IR/WP power, wealth, security, love, and knowledge and how they could change according to circumstance and context.
- Epilogue/Introduction: The Return brings the reader back into the Western world and focuses on modern-day PhD student Wanda who is troubled by what'she is learning, and searches for a different perspective.
Engaging with the substantive problematiques at the heart of international relations studies, this work is a unique and innovative resource for all students and scholars of international relations and world politics.
Imagining World Politics: Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780415718868 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 02/05/2014 |
Series: | Interventions |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 244 |
Product dimensions: | 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d) |