Thinking World Politics Otherwise is a different kind of textbook. It includes a variety of critical approaches and perspectives that seek to challenge and rethink orthodox understandings of International Relations.
Moving away from traditional approaches based on theoretical and historical schools of thought, Thinking World Politics Otherwise brings together prominent voices in the field that recognize the importance of engaging with global politics from a range of perspectives and through a variety of cutting-edge approaches. It provides students with the opportunity to become familiar with a wide spectrum of approaches, issues, and cases that have been historically marginalized in the discipline.
Key Features · Includes a variety of approaches that have been historically marginalized in the discipline. · Each section editor, as an expert in the approach represented in their section, provides an introduction to the section to give readers an overview of the approach. · Diverse topics and chapters, ranging from understanding how the everyday shapes our view of the world to a planetary examination of international mobility, provides students with a wide range of learning opportunities. · Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support.
Digital formats and resources Thinking World Politics Otherwise is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats and is supported by online resources.
The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-test multiple choice questions, functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
The digital version, available on Politics Trove, is also accompanied by online resources. These include:
For lecturers: - PowerPoint slides with a deck for each chapter to help build lecture materials
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At a time when inventing different ways of living and doing politics feels both urgent and difficult, the contributors to this volume give us the gift of imagination. They do not merely think world politics, but also feel and do. Here's to worlds otherwise! * Roxani Krystalli, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews * A rich, diverse and multi-faceted engagement with a range of essential concepts and approaches within contemporary IR theory. A useful contribution to advanced courses on world politics in general and IR Theory in particular. * Kevin Dunn, Professor of International Relations, Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges *
1: Jonneke Koomen and Salome Ayuak: Learning about World Politics: The
What and the HowKnowing World Politics Rhys Crilley: Introduction 2: Joanna
Tidy: The everyday 3: Dean Cooper-Cunningham: Discourse 4: Precious N.
Chatterje-Doody: Narrative 5: Lisa Bogerts and David Shim: Visuality 6:
Kristin Anabel Eggeling: Practice 7: Naomi Head, Clara Eroukhmanoff, and
Amanda Beattie: EmotionsPostcolonial and Decolonial Approaches Nivi
Manchanda: Introduction 8: Musab Younis: International History 9: Lisa
Tilley: Race/economy 10: James Eastwood and Sharri Plonski: Settler
colonialism 11: Kerem Nisancioglu: Connection/Relation 12: Sara Salem: The
internationalFeminist Approaches Laura J. Shepherd: Introduction 13: V. Spike
Peterson: Privilege 14: Shweta Singh: Security and Militarism 15: Perdita
Sonntag, Karinda Flavell, and Samanthi Gunawardana: Global Political Economy
16: Cecilia Åse: The State 17: Alba Boer Cueva, Lenka Olejnikova and Laura J.
Shepherd: GenderQueer Approaches Caitlin Biddolph and Cai Wilkinson:
Introduction 18: Catherine Charrett and Mohamed Abdou: Religion 19: Amanda
Álvares Ferreira: The body politic 20: Caitlin Biddolph: International Law
and Justice 21: Ryan Thoreson: Human Rights 22: Julia Richardson and Cai
Wilkinson: SecurityPlanetary Approaches Stefanie Fishel: Introduction 23:
Joana Castro Pereira: Ecology 24: Benjamin Meiches: Violence 25: Anthony
Burke: Ecological Law 26: Danielle Celermajer: Justice 27: Samid Suliman and
Kaya Barry: International Mobility
Rhys Crilley is a Lecturer in International Relations and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has published widely on the intersections of global politics, social media, and popular culture. His current research explores how the legitimacy of nuclear weapons is communicated and contested in the contemporary era. He tweets at @rhyscrilley.
Nivi Manchanda is a Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She is interested in questions of racism, colonialism, and capitalism and how they shape the contemporary global order. She is currently working on a project on borders, settler colonialism, and global solidarity, with a particular concern for Palestinian liberation.
Laura J. Shepherd is a Professor of International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research explores aspects of gender and governance. She still spends too much time on Twitter, which she refuses to call X, and where she mostly lurks but tweets occasionally from @drljshepherd.
Cai Wilkinson is an Associate Professor in International Relations at Deakin University, Australia. Cai's research focuses on societal security in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on LGBTQ human rights and "traditional values" in Kyrgyzstan and Russia, as well as on interrogating the role of genders and sexualities in international politics. Cai is currently working on projects about the politics of LGBT rights and "traditional values", and queer knowledges.
Caitlin Biddolph is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of International Studies and Education at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. She is currently researching the global governance of transitional justice through queer decolonial perspectives. More broadly, Caitlin is interested in queer, feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial approaches to global politics, particularly global governance, international law, and transitional justice.
Stefanie Fishel is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunshine Coast in Southeast Queensland, Australia. She specializes in international relations, political theory, and environmental politics. Her interdisciplinary research engages with science and technology studies, philosophy, and the natural sciences, exploring how these fields inform our understanding of global political issues.
