ABSTRACT

This volume brings together 19 original chapters, plus four substantive introductions, which collectively provide a unique examination of the issues of science, technology, and art in international relations. The overarching theme of the book links global politics with human interventions in the world: We cannot disconnect how humans act on the world through science, technology, and artistic endeavors from the engagements and practices that together constitute IR. There is science, technology, and even artistry in the conduct of war—and in the conduct of peace as well. Scholars and students of international relations are beginning to explore these connections, and the authors of the chapters in this volume from around the world are at the forefront.

chapter 1|8 pages

Science, Technology, and Art in International Relations

Origins and Prospects

part I|86 pages

Foundations of STAIR Scholarship

chapter 3|11 pages

How to Discomfort a Worldview?

Social Sciences, Surveillance Technologies, and Defamiliarization

chapter 4|10 pages

World-Viewing as World-Making

Feminist Technoscience, International Relations, and the Aesthetics of the Anthropocene

chapter 5|10 pages

Emerging Science and Technologies

Diplomacy, Security, and Governance

chapter 7|13 pages

Constructing an Inventive Order of Rights

The Geopolitics of Island-Building in Transnational Waters

part II|61 pages

Sites and Demonstrations in STAIR Scholarship

chapter 9|7 pages

“The Heart is a Pump. Or is it?”

The Politics of Biomedicine, the Objectivity of Science, and the Way We Know the World

chapter 10|8 pages

Thinking through the Science, Technology, and Art of Medicine

An Agenda for International Relations

chapter 14|8 pages

Creativity as a Worldview

Power in Collaborative Practices

part III|51 pages

Reflexivity in STAIR

chapter 15|9 pages

Reflexivity and Political Analysis

If Everything Is Socially Constructed, How Can We Construct Theories?

chapter 16|11 pages

Art and Agency

Alternative Spaces for Subaltern Voices

chapter 17|9 pages

Cookbooks, Politics, and Culture

chapter 18|8 pages

Human/Non-Human Assemblages in STAIR

Understanding Distributed Agency in International Relations

chapter 19|6 pages

Resistance to a Worldview