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Author Strausz, Erzsébet, author.

Title Writing the self and transforming knowledge in international relations : towards a politics of liminality / Erzsébet Strausz
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Interventions
Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements and affirmations; Signposts; Two three years after (or who knows); 1 An experience book of â#x80;#x98;sovereigntyâ#x80;#x99;; 2 Reading and writing (with) a Foucaultian ethos; 3 Self in discourse, discourse in self; 4 Narrative voice from a liminal space: I as â#x80;#x98;Iâ#x80;#x99;; 5 Writing sovereignly; Preface/postscript: May I walk with you for a while?; Bibliography; Index
Summary "This book emerges from within the everyday knowledge practices of International Relations (IR) scholarship and explores the potential of experimental writing as an alternative source of 'knowledge' and political imagination within the modern university and the contemporary structures of neoliberal government. It unlocks and foregrounds the power of writing as a site of resistance and a vehicle of transformation that is fundamentally grounded in reflexivity, self-crafting and an ethos of care. In an attempt to cultivate new sensibilities to habitual academic practice the project re-appropriates the skill of writing for envisioning and enacting what it might mean to be working in the discipline of IR and inhabiting the usual spaces and scenes of academic life differently. The practice of experimental writing that intuitively unfolds and develops in the book makes an important methodological intervention into conventional social scientific inquiry both regarding the politics of writing and knowledge production as well as the role and position of the researcher. The formal innovations of the book include the actualization and creative remaking of the Foucaultian genre of the 'experience book, ' which seeks to challenge scholarly routine and offers new experiences and modes of perception as to what it might mean to 'know' and to be a 'knowing subject' in our times. The book will be of interest to researchers engaged in critical and creative research methods (particularly narrative writing, autobiography, storytelling, experimental and transformational research), Foucault studies and philosophy, as well as critical approaches to contemporary government and studies of resistance."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 28, 2018)
Subject International relations -- Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
International relations -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203732953
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