Synopses & Reviews
This collected volume draws together essays written by IR scholars from a variety of regional, methodological, and theoretical perspectives to confront the challenges of identity-centered analysis. In particular, the contributors seek to elucidate the general meaning and methodological implications of the commonly stated, yet largely unexamined, assertion that identities are relational, fluid, constructed, and multiple.
Synopsis
"an unpacking of the term identity packed with illustrations from tango to transnationalization. a welcome addition to IR's identity debates in the classroom and beyond."--Professor Cynthia Weber, Lancaster University, UK
About the Author
Patricia Goff is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Kevin Dunn teaches at Hobart and William Smith College.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Patricia M. Goff & Kevin C. Dunn *
Part I: Alterity * Deep Structure, Free-Floating Signifier or Something in Between?: Europe's Alterity in Putin's Russia--Iver B. Neumann * The Power and the Passion: Civilizational Identity and Alterity in the Wake of September 11th--Jacinta O'Hagan * Engendering Social Transformations in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic--Jacqui True *
Part II: Fluidity * Studying Continuity and Change in South African Political Identity--Jamie Frueh * 'The Language of Respectability' and the (Re)Constitution of Muslim Selves in Colonial Bengal--Samantha Arnold * The Trouble with the Evolués: French Republicanism, Colonial Subjectivity, and Identity--Siba Grovogui *
Part III: Constructedness * Narrating Identity: Constructing the Congo during the 1960 Crisis--Kevin C. Dunn * Agency, State-Society Relations, and the Construction of National Identity: Case Studies from the Transcaspian Region --Douglas W. Blum * Whose Identity? Some Thoughts on How to Analyze Identity as a Completely Social Construct--Patrick Thaddeus Jackson *
Part IV: Multiplicity *Tango, Touch and Moving Multiplicities--Erin Manning * Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity: Human Rights, Zimbabwe's 'land crisis' and South Africa's 'quiet diplomacy'-- J. Zoë Wilson and David Black * CMexican Identity Contested: Transnationalization of Political Economy and the Construction of Modernity--Marianne H. Marchand * Conclusion--Patricia M. Goff & Kevin C. Dunn