ABSTRACT
Much is lost by the field’s current insularity to theory from different parts of the globe, and from different disciplines. Rather than seeking to validate the neocolonial universality of a relatively narrow stream of US theory, we recommend that PR generates different epistemic maps. Our first example of the cost of such absences features one of the most influential thinkers on global relations, Edward Said. As Patrick Williams (2004) observes in his academic obituary of Edward Said (1935-2003):
If it is unusual for the death of an academic to constitute much of a media event, then it is altogether rare for such a death to be a media event on a global scale, as was the case with Edward Said. That this should be so is perhaps no more than fitting for someone who not only did so much to rehabilitate the categories of the public intellectual and the intellectual engagé, both in his academic work and in his daily life, but did so precisely globally.
