Imagining World Politics

Description:

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.

subjects: International relations,  World politics,  East and west,  Feminism,  Feminist criticism,  Political aspects,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / General,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General,  Feminist literary criticism,  Relations internationales,  Politique mondiale,  Féminisme,  Aspect politique,  Critique féministe,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  General,  Government,  International,  Internationella relationer,  Politik,  Filosofi,  Religion,  Taoism,  Symboler,  Politics,  Philosophy,  Symbols,  Internationell politik,  Politiska aspekter