Suchergebnisse

1. Teaching an unorthodox IR course / Devika Goonewardene -- 2. Reworking the ruling knowledge bank about international politics / Ashis Nandy in conversation with Phillip Darby -- 3. Narrating the nation and international law / Antony Anghie -- 4. Development and world order / Phillip Darby -- 5. Glimpses of African life : two short stories / Sekai Nzenza -- 6. On misplaced IR / IR fora do lugar : politics and emancipation in Latin America / Carlos Eduardo Morreo -- 7. Performing pedagogy : memory and the aesthetic turn / David L. Martin -- 8. The neglected shadow self / Christine Deftereos -- 9. Sea level : towards a poetic geography / Paul Carter.

This article outlines a schema for developing an alternative knowledge about security, privileging non-European peoples and focusing on the sources and potentiality of insecurity. Urging attention to the everyday and the personal, to the claims of the other, and to forms of social suffering, the analysis foregrounds the part that spatiality can play in reconceptualizing security without making spatiality itself the subject of analysis.

Taking its bearings from postcolonial studies, this article probes the meaning of the political in contemporary international life and how it works to block systemic change in North-South relations. The paper begins by attempting to reposition postcolonial criticism, contending that it needs to engage more directly with the politics of global relations today. It then examines the present world order arguing that the political is so constituted as to proscribe dissent. I go on to argue for a politics of difference, paying particular attention to the campaign for democratisation. I further argue that there is a need to take account of everyday life which can represent a politics in the making. The paper concludes by suggesting that the political as it is currently understood works to underwrite the existing order and that what is threatening is relegated to the sphere of the non-political.