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The armour of Hector : from the mediation of violence to its masqueradeIn Christine Sylvester (ed.), Masquerades of war, Routledge/taylor & Francis Group. 2015.
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3Trauma, Dislocation, and Lived Fear in the Postsecular World: Towards a First Methodological ChecklistCulture and Dialogue 3 (1): 95-107. 2013.This paper is a response to isolated but increasingly frequent efforts within the International Relations profession to approach questions of a postsecular world. However, such approaches are based on certain assumptions, chiefly that a mode of reasoning analogous to that of Critical thought can be transposed to the study of religions and spirituality; and that high normative thought is embedded in all religious thought. This paper cautions against such assumptions, and sets out a series of indi…Read more
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4Contextual Utility and Practicality: Cultural Research for the School Community in Hong KongCultural Studies Review 12 (2). 2006.As an intellectual project, is cultural studies actually ‘useless’ in dealing with issues closely tied to students’ everyday practices? In this article, the authors examine the problem through the case of teacher training and curriculum development in the context of educational reform in Hong Kong—in particular, through a community-interface project we are engaged in as cultural researchers at the moment.
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8The Problematic Non-Western cosmopolitanism in Africa today: Grappling with A modernity outside historyHuman Affairs 28 (4): 351-366. 2018.The question, ‘can Africa deal with a postcoloniality without reference to the colonising metropole?’ neglects that Africa must deal with many powers that were not colonisers. Dealing with China requires a relationship outside the period of formal colonial rule, and requires a new cosmopolitanism that can be difficult, yet vibrant.
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Journals including the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and Politics. Claudia Aradau is a lecturer at the Open University (OU). Her research inter-rogates current developments in the international sphere–from the manage-ment of migration and the prevention of human trafficking to practices of counterterrorism–in order to explore their political consequences for demo (review)In Cerwyn Moore & Chris Farrands (eds.), International Relations Theory and Philosophy: Interpretive Dialogues, Routledge. 2010.
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3Theorising in International Relations: Contemporary Theorists and Their CriticsEdwin Mellen Press. 1997.Theorists examined include: Susan Strange, John Burton, Andrew Linklater, James Der Derian, Mervyn Frost, William Connolly, and Richard Rorty.
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The Zen of International RelationsPalgrave-Macmillan. 2001.The new millennium can only be a time of true globalization if different histories and systems of understanding the world are appreciated. The authors unveil significant studies to do with epistemological debates in International Relations, and give detailed middle and far-eastern examples of how different cultures have used story-telling as a means of understanding what is outside and around. Especially provocative is the Chinese idea of the West as an 'Other', as atypical and, indeed, inscruta…Read more
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Seattle UniversityRegular Faculty
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of Law |