ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concept of 'road-and-travel' in international relations (IR). It presents the idea of a global metabolism or metamorphosis for a post-Western, post-Westphalian IR. The worldist approach to global metabolism and/or metamorphosis may present different pictures of the world, while sharing some core concepts in IR. A road-centered view of the world counterposes mainstream IR's territory-centered view; travel, too, enables one to cross borders and enter cultures, bringing the stranger and the native into mutual interaction. Road-and-travel may present fresh thinking for globalizing IR. The inner and inter-territorial culture of road-and-travel suggests that the whole world keeps alive through continuous 'inbounds' and 'outbounds' of people, actions, information, and anything else. The road-and-travel concept offers a temporary retreat from the critical/political, while, at the same time, authorizes a full investigation of critical methodology and its practical application in different cultures.
