ABSTRACT
This book explores the possibilities of alternative worldings beyond those authorized by the disciplinary norms and customs of International Relations. In response to the boundary-drawing practices of IR that privilege the historical experience and scholarly folkways of the "West," the contributors examine the limits of even critical practice within the discipline; investigate alternative archives from India, the Caribbean, the steppes of Eurasia, the Andes, China, Japan and Southeast Asia that offer different understandings of proper rule, the relationality of identities and polities, notions of freedom and imaginations of layers of sovereignty; and demonstrate distinct modes of writing and inquiry. In doing so, the book also speaks about different possibilities for IR and for inquiry without it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |34 pages
Reflections on critical IR
part |59 pages
Alternative archives of the state
chapter |20 pages
Sinic World Order Revisited
part |57 pages
Alternative international registers
part |56 pages
Writing the international differently