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Introduction : framing the posthuman dialogues in international relations / Erika Cudworth, Stephen Hobden, and Emilian Kavalski -- Animals and human constitution :Greek lessons, posthuman possibilities / Caleb J. Basnett -- With a posthuman touch : international relations in dialogue with the posthuman : a human account / Carolin Kaltofen -- Telling (hi)stories in the anthropocene : when forest is multispecies relation / Agata Agnieszka Konczal -- Potential of posthumanist onto-epistemology for the study of international relations / Elina Penttinen -- Agency in posthuman IR : solving the problem of technosocially mediated agency / Michael Schandorf and Athina Karatzogianni -- Posthumanist international relations and ecopolitics / Sebastien Malette and Peter Stoett -- Worm politics / Eva Meijer -- Fish and international relations / J. Samuel Barkin -- The posthuman way of war / Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden -- Representing posthumans : citizenship and the political production of bodies and technologies / John Hultgren -- Genetically modified crops and the posthuman politics beyond borders / Marco Bernardini -- Cyborgs, control and transformation : posthumanist arms control and disarmament / Michael Bourne -- Non-lines of sight : battlespace visualization and the reterritorialization of martial vision / Ian Roderick -- The excesses of posthumanism : some reflections on "thinking" as capacity / Jessica Schmidt -- Epilogue : beyond the anthropocentric partitioning of the world / Emilian Kavalski, Stephen Hobden, and Erika Cudworth.

"Posthumanism represents a significant new research direction both for International Relations and the social sciences. It emerges from questions about inter-species relations which challenge dominant perceptions of what it means to be human. Rather than seeing the human species as 'in nature' posthumanist thinking considers the species as 'of nature'. The work of posthumanist thinkers has sought to dispute accepted notions of what it means to be human, raising profound questions about our relations with the rest of nature. The volume commences with an overview of the influence thinkers have had on the development of posthumanist thinking. Key ideas in International Relations are interrogated and reconceptualised and specific case studies are presented with a focus on inter-species relations. The work allows for a consideration of the limits of the posthumanist move and provides space for critics to argue that such an approach opens the discipline up to a biological determinism, and that a focus on inter-human relations should mark the boundaries of the discipline. The essays collected in this volume provide an overview of contributions from posthumanist thinkers with the particular intention of providing a succinct introduction to the area and should appeal to scholars and students in Politics, IR and philosophy."--Provided by publisher.