{"product_id":"imagining-world-politics-1","title":"Imagining World Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003eyang\u003c\/em\u003e of power politics, this book offers a \u003cem\u003eyin\u003c\/em\u003e of fairy-tale. (Both are equally fantastical but to different purposes.) To the \u003cem\u003eyang\u003c\/em\u003e of binary categories like Self vs Other, West vs Rest, hypermasculinity vs hyperfemininity, Sihar and Shenya show their \u003cem\u003eyin\u003c\/em\u003e complementarities and complicities, inside and out, top and bottom, center and periphery. And to the \u003cem\u003eyang\u003c\/em\u003e of intransigent hegemony, \u003cem\u003eSihar \u0026amp; Shenya\u003c\/em\u003e explores the \u003cem\u003eyin\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook I shows what an alternative world could look and feel like.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook II makes the implications for IR\/WP more explicit. It draws on the traditional Chinese notion of the five movements (\u003ci\u003ewu xing\u003c\/i\u003e) -- 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue\/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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngaging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54261553561944,"sku":"9780415718868","price":49.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415718868.jpg?v=1779422426","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/imagining-world-politics-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}