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"Women as Objects and Commodities" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Late Modernity/Postmodernity" published on by Oxford University Press.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Race, gender, and culture in International Relations -- Introduction -- Classic works of postcolonialism -- Critical theory -- Gender dimensions of the postcolonial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 2 Postcolonialism and its relevance for International Relations in a globalized world -- Introduction -- The given wisdom -- What difference does postcolonialism make? -- The way forward -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 3 Race in International Relations -- Introduction -- Race as theory -- Race in global society -- Race and global economic development -- Race and security -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 4 Gender, race, and International Relations -- Introduction -- Gender(less) bodies, gendered bodies in IR -- "Ain't I a woman?" -- Gender in International Relations -- Theories of gender in IR -- Liberal feminism -- Standpoint feminism -- Marxist feminism -- Poststructuralist feminism -- Absent questions from most feminist theories -- Intersectionality -- Can we talk about race now? -- Gender and race -- Neoliberal globalization: a gendered and racialized process -- Black and postcolonial feminisms -- Feminist theory versus practice -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 5 Gender, nation, and nationalism -- Introduction -- Nation and nationalism -- The state -- Postcolonial voices -- Feminism, gender and the femininity/masculinity binary -- Nationalism and gender -- Conclusion -- Note -- Suggested readings -- Bibliography -- 6 Postcolonialism and International Relations: Intersections of sexuality, religion, and race -- Introduction

Introduction : race, gender, and culture in IR / Randolph B. Persaud and Alina Sajed -- Postcolonialism : the relevance for IR in a globalized world / Sankaran Krishna -- Race in international relations / Srdjan Vucetic and Randolph B. Persaud -- Gender, race and international relations / Aytak Akbari-Divabar -- Gender and nation / Nivi Manchanda and Leah de Haan -- Postcolonialism and international relations : intersections of sexuality, religion, and race / Momin Rahman -- Race and global inequality / Naeem Inayatullah and David Blaney -- Discourses of conquest and resistance : international relations & Anishinaabe diplomacy / Hayden King -- Security studies, postcolonialism, and the Third World / Randolph B. Persaud -- "It is not about me...but it kind of is" : celebrity humanitarianism in late modernity / Aida Hozic, Samantha Majic and Ibrahim Yahaya

"Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of 50 of the most important theorists of globalization including: - Manuel Castells - Amartya Sen - Zygmunt Bauman - Jan Aart Scholte Each thinker's contribution to the field is evaluated and assessed, and each entry includes a helpful guide to further reading. Fully cross-referenced throughout, this remarkable reference guide is essential reading for students of politics and international relations, economics, sociology, history, anthropology and literary studies. William Coleman is Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. He has published widely in the areas of globalization studies and global public policy. Alina Sajed is a Lecturer at McMaster University, Canada"--

"Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of 50 of the most important theorists of globalization including: - Manuel Castells - Amartya Sen - Zygmunt Bauman - Jan Aart Scholte Each thinker's contribution to the field is evaluated and assessed, and each entry includes a helpful guide to further reading. Fully cross-referenced throughout, this remarkable reference guide is essential reading for students of politics and international relations, economics, sociology, history, anthropology and literary studies. William Coleman is Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. He has published widely in the areas of globalization studies and global public policy. Alina Sajed is a Lecturer at McMaster University, Canada"--

This article argues that Critical IR theory's (CIRT) claims to reflexivity, its engagement with "difference," and its emancipatory stance are compromised by its enduringly Eurocentric gaze. While CIRT is certainly critical of the West, nevertheless its tendency toward "Eurofetishism"—by which Western agency is reified at the expense of non-Western agency—leads it into a "critical Eurocentrism." While this Eurofetishism plays out differently across the spectrum of CIRT, nevertheless all too often the West is treated as distinct from the non-West such that a fully relational conception of the West—one in which the non-West shapes, tracks, and inflects the West as much as vice versa—is either downplayed or dismissed altogether. Our antidote to this problem is to advance such a relational approach that brings non-Western agency back in while simultaneously recognizing that such agency is usually subjected to structural constraints. This gives rise to two core objectives: first, that non-Western agency needs to be taken seriously as an ontologically significant process in world politics, and second, that it needs to be explored in its complex, manifold dimensions. Here we seek to move beyond the colonial binaries of non-Western "silence vs. defiance" and an "all-powerful West vs. powerless non-West." For between these polarities lies a spectrum of instantiations of non-Western agency, running from the refusal to be known and categorized by colonial epistemes to mundane moments of everyday agency to the embrace of indigenous cosmologies through to modes of developmental and global agency. Sometimes these speak back to the West, and at other times they occur for reasons Other-wise. Ultimately we call for a relational sociology of global interconnectivities that problematizes CIRT's Eurofetishization of the West as a separate, self-generating, self-directed, and hyper-autonomous entity.

International relations theory has broadened out considerably since the end of the Cold War. Topics and issues once deemed irrelevant to the discipline have been systematically drawn into the debate and great strides have been made in the areas of culture/identity, race, and gender in the discipline. However, despite these major developments over the last two decades, currently there are no comprehensive textbooks that deal with race, gender, and culture in IR from a postcolonial perspective. This textbook fills this important gap. Persaud and Sajed have drawn together an outstanding lineup of scholars, with each chapter illustrating the ways these specific lenses (race, gender, culture) condition or alter our assumptions about world politics. This book: covers a wide range of topics including war, global inequality, postcolonialism, nation/nationalism, indigeneity, sexuality, celebrity humanitarianism, and religion; follows a clear structure, with each chapter situating the topic within IR, reviewing the main approaches and debates surrounding the topic and illustrating the subject matter through case studies; features pedagogical tools and resources in every chapter - boxes to highlight major points; illustrative narratives; and a list of suggested readings. Drawing together prominent scholars in critical International Relations, this work shows why and how race, gender and culture matter and will be essential reading for all students of global politics and International Relations theory.

Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors and Authors -- Preface to the 6th Edition -- 1: Introduction -- A Century of IR Theorizing -- Post-War International Relations Theory -- The End of Theory? Why Theory Has Never Been More Important -- What Is Theory and How Do We Theorize? -- Why Theorize? From Motivation to Purpose -- Evaluating Theories -- Explanatory Power -- Predictive Power -- Interpretive Power -- Intellectual Consistency and Coherence -- Reflexivity -- Outline of the Book -- Conclusion: Next Generation of IR Theorizing? -- Glossary Terms -- 2: Realism -- Defining Realism -- Exemplary Realist Arguments -- The Hobbesian State of Nature -- Waltzian Structural Realism -- Characteristic Realist Propositions -- Self-Help -- Cooperation and Conflict -- Balancing -- Relative Gains -- Neo-classical Refinements of the Balancing Logic -- Morality and Foreign Policy -- Varieties of Realist Theories and Explanations -- Realist 'Theories' -- Realist Explanations vs. Explanations that Employ Realist Elements -- Structural Realism: Indeterminate Predictions -- Augmented Structural Realism -- Neo-classical Realism -- Fear, Uncertainty and the Future of Realist Theories -- Glossary Terms -- Further Reading -- 3: Liberalism -- After the Cold War -- The Liberal View: 'Inside Looking Out' -- War, Democracy and Free Trade -- Prospects for Peace -- The Spirit of Commerce -- Interdependence and Liberal Institutionalism -- Human Rights -- Globalization, the Financial System and Terrorism -- Liberalism and Globalization -- The Nature of 'Free Trade' -- Sovereignty and Foreign Investment -- Non-State Terrorism -- Conclusion -- Glossary Terms -- Further Reading -- 4: Postcolonialism -- 'The Third World Was Not a Place, It Was a Project' -- Postcolonialism in IR: Colonialism, Race, and Epistemic Justice.