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Transforming World Politics

From Empire to Multiple Worlds

By: Anna M. Agathangelou,L.H.M. Ling

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Transforming World Politics

From Empire to Multiple Worlds

By: Anna M. Agathangelou,L.H.M. Ling

This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation. These projects offer few options for emancipation; consequently, many feel they have little choice but to retaliate against violence with more violence. The authors of this pioneering work articulate worldism as an alternative approach to world politics. It intertwines non-Western and Western traditions by drawing on Marxist, postcolonial, feminist and critical security approaches with Greek and Chinese theories of politics, broadly defined. The authors contend that contemporary world politics cannot be understood outside the legacies of these multiple worlds, including axes of power configured by gender, race, class, and nationality, which are themselves linked to earlier histories of colonizations and their contemporary formations. With fiction and poetry as exploratory methods, the authors build on their ‘multiple worlds’ approach to consider different sites of world politics, arguing that a truly emancipatory understanding of world politics requires more than just a shift in ways of thinking; above all, it requires a shift in ways of being. Transforming World Politics will be of vital interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Political Science, Postcolonial Studies, Social Theory, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, European Union and Mediterranean Studies, and Security Studies.

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1135979944

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Imagining World Politics

Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times

By: L.H.M. Ling

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Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times

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This book offers a non-Western feminist perspective on world politics and international relations. Creative, innovative, and challenging, it seeks completely to transform contemporary Eurocentric and masculinist IR by re-presenting it in non-Western, non-masculinist, and non-academic terms. Drawing on Daoist dialectics, the stories of Sihar and Shenya aim to redress such hegemonic imbalance by completing the IR story. To the yang of power politics, this book offers a yin of fairy-tale. (Both are equally fantastical but to different purposes.) To the yang of binary categories like Self vs Other, West vs Rest, hypermasculinity vs hyperfemininity, Sihar and Shenya show their yin complementarities and complicities, inside and out, top and bottom, center and periphery. And to the yang of intransigent hegemony, Sihar & Shenya explores the yin of emancipation through porous, water-like thought and behavior through venues like aesthetics and emotions. From this basis, we begin to see another world with another kind of 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.

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Transforming World Politics

From Empire to Multiple Worlds

By: Anna M. Agathangelou,L.H.M. Ling

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The Dao of World Politics

Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations

By: L. H. M. Ling

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The Dao of World Politics

Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations

By: L. H. M. Ling

This book draws on Daoist yin/yang dialectics to move world politics from the current stasis of hegemony, hierarchy, and violence to a more balanced engagement with parity, fluidity, and ethics. The author theorizes that we may develop a richer, more representative approach towards sustainable and democratic governance by offering a non-Western alternative to hegemonic debates in IR. The book presents the story of world politics by integrating folk tales and popular culture with policy analysis. It does not exclude current models of liberal internationalism but rather brackets them for another day, another purpose. The deconstruction of IR as a singular unifying school of thought through the lens of a non-Westphalian analytic shows a unique perspective on the forces that drive and shape world politics. This book suggests new ways to articulate and act so that global politics is more inclusive and less coercive. Only then, the book claims, could IR realize what the dao has always stood for: a world of compassion and care. The Dao of World Politics bridges the humanities and social sciences, and will be of interest to scholars and students of the global/international, as well as policymakers and activists of the local/domestic.

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Imagining World Politics

Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times

By: L.H.M. Ling

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Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times

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India China

Rethinking Borders and Security

By: L.H.M. Ling,Adriana Erthal Abdenur,Payal Banerjee,Nimmi Kurian,Mahendra P. Lama,Li Bo

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India China

Rethinking Borders and Security

By: L.H.M. Ling,Adriana Erthal Abdenur,Payal Banerjee,Nimmi Kurian,Mahendra P. Lama,Li Bo

Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads, the modern BCIM Initiative, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India. Together, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger, cross-border communities, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race, gender, class, religion, and other social barriers, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472902520

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Video Games as Art

A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship between Gaming and the Art

By: Frank G. Bosman,Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen

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Video Games as Art

A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship between Gaming and the Art

By: Frank G. Bosman,Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen

Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, the academia is only beginning to grasp the intellectual, philosophical, aesthetical, and existential potency of the new medium. The same applies to the question whether video games are (or are not) art in and on themselves. Based on the Communication-Oriented Analysis, the authors assess the plausibility of games-as-art and define the domains associted with this question.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110731010

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The Dao of World Politics

Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations

By: L. H. M. Ling

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Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations

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1134526911

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India China

Rethinking Borders and Security

By: L.H.M. Ling,Adriana Erthal Abdenur,Payal Banerjee,Nimmi Kurian,Mahendra P. Lama,Li Bo

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Rethinking Borders and Security

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