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A new look at constructivism / Mariano E. Bertucci, Jarrod Hayes, and Patrick James -- Constructivism in international relations : the story so far / Mariano E. Bertucci, Jarrod Hayes, and Patrick James -- The future of constructivism : a constructivist assessment / David M. McCourt -- On constructivism, realism, and contingency / Oliver Kessler and Brent Steele -- Constructivism and the logic of legitimation / Stacie E. Goddard and Ronald R. Krebs -- The power of prejudice : the race gap in constructivist international relations scholarship / Audie Klotz -- Technology and constructivism : interrogating the material-ideational divide / Jordan Branch -- Integrating social psychological insights into constructivist research / Jennifer M. Ramos -- New wine into a (not so) old bottle? : constructivism and the practice turn / Jérémie Cornut -- Securitization theory : toward a replicable framework for analysis / Thomas Jamieson -- A realist perspective on the constructivist project / Charles Glaser -- Realism, uncertainty, and the security dilemma : identity and the tantalizing promise of transformed international relations / David Blagden -- If it is everything, it is nothing : an argument for specificity in constructivisms / Laura Sjoberg and J. Samuel Barkin -- Moving forward / Mariano E. Bertucci, Jarrod Hayes, and Patrick James -- Epilogue : constructivism and global international relations : false promise to vanguard / Amitav Acharya

Introduction / Brent J. Steele, Harry D. Gould, and Oliver Kessler -- Interpreting constructivism -- Third generation constructivism : between tactics and strategy / Piki Ish-Shalom -- A tactical guide to conceptual analysis / Hannes Peltonen -- Social constructivism and actor-network theory : bridging the divide / Alexander D. Barder -- Tactics of a constructivist pedagogy / Jamie Frueh and Jeremy Youde -- Discourse, interpretation and methods -- Narrative analysis as a tactical bridge / Jelena Subotic -- Identities as tactics: exposing relational foreign policy as story / Amy Skonieczny -- Constructivism, computational social-relational methods, and multiple correspondence analysis / David M. McCourt -- Constructivism and the interpretive methods of the self -- When home is part of the field : experiencing uncanniness of home in field conversations / Xymena Kurowska -- A reflexivity that works for us : ethics beyond norms / Jack Amoreux -- Feminist curiosity as method: on (limits to) tactical uses of constructivism / Anne-Marie D'Aoust -- Researching within the instability of meaning : decolonial voices and practices / Marcos Scauso -- Constructing a scholar on the road less travelled / deRaismes Combes -- Tactics all the way down : the politics of exteriority in constructivism / Brent J. Steele -- Construction and the interpretation of history and texts -- How to do (differing) things with words : world-making and (or) meaning-making / Harry D. Gould -- Stubbornly stumbling into making history : constructivism and historical international relations / Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho.

This book complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples. It offers new conceptual scaffolding to those who have inherited the legacy of colonial privilege, and who now seek to responsibly transform this historical injustice. Simone Bignall attends to a minor tradition within Western philosophy including Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson and Deleuze, to argue that a non-imperial concept of social and political agency and a postcolonial philosophy of material transformation are embedded within aspects of poststructuralist social philosophy. Contributing to contemporary philosophical inquiry about desire, power and transformative agency, Postcolonial Agency constitutes a timely intervention to debates in poststructuralist, postcolonial and postmodern studies. Beginning with a critical treatment of the dialectical notions that dominate much postcolonial theory, Bignall then outlines a constructive and transformative theory of practice by drawing from Foucault and Deleuze. The resulting rapprochement between poststructuralism and postcolonialism coincidentally provides a fresh perspective on the political potential of Deleuzian thought. Postcolonial Agency provides readers with a significantly new understanding of the processes of social transformation faced by many societies as they struggle with the aftermath of empire. It does so by engaging readers with respect to their affective communities and their concrete ethics of relationship, providing them with a valuable new way of conceptualising practices of postcolonial sociability. It is of interest to students in political and postcolonial studies, cultural studies, critical theory and Continental philosophy.

In metaethics, there is a divide between those who believe that there exist moral facts independently of human interests and attitudes (i.e., moral realists) and those who don't (i.e., antirealists). In the last half century, the field of religious ethics has been inundated with various antirealist schools of moral thought. Though there is a wide spectrum of different positons within antirealism, a majority of antirealist religious ethicists tend to see moral belief as an historically dependent social construction. This has created an environment where doing religious ethics in any metaphysically substantial sense is often seen not only as out of fashion but also as philosophically implausible. However, there is a lack of clarity as to what antirealists exactly mean by "construction" and what arguments they would use to support their views. Religious Ethics and Constructivismbrings together a diverse group of scholars who represent different philosophical and theological outlooks to discuss the merits of constructivism vis-à-vis religious ethics. The essays explore four different kinds of constructivism in metaethics: social (or Hegelian) constructivism, Kantian constructivism, Humean constructivism, and theological constructivism. The overall aim of these essays is to foster dialogue between religious ethicists and moral philosophers, and to open the field religious ethics to the insights that can be provided by contemporary metaethics.

Interpreting Nietzsche on objects -- Against constructivism -- For constructivism -- Objections to constructivism -- Consequences of constructivism -- Nihilism and constructivism -- Nietzsche, constructivism, and pragmatism -- Nietzsche's constructivism and current debates

Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe is - according to the central constructivist assumption - inescapably biased.This book presents the views of the founders of constructivism and modern systems theory, who are still providing stimulating cues for international scientific debate. The conversations of Heinz von Foerste

Whatever happened to pragmatism + reflections -- Pragmatic inquiry and the "go" of truth -- Epistemology : inquiry or knowledge -- Pragmatic inquiry and knowledge -- I'm going to make you a star -- Starting from scratch : making worlds -- The power of pictures -- Creating art, creating reality : a Wild(e) view of art -- The facts about facts -- Pragmatic constructivism : values, norms, and obligations -- Veridicality in Berkeley's theory of vision -- Pluralist perspectives on perceptual error -- Perceptual veridicality.

Constructivist IR scholars study the ways in which international norms, culture, and identities-all intersubjective phenomena-inform foreign policy and affect the reaction to and outcomes of international events. Political psychologists similarly investigate divergent national self-conceptions as well as the individual cognitive and emotional propensities that shape ideology and policy. Given their mutual interest in human subjectivity and identity politics, a dialogue and synthesis between constructivism and political psychology is long overdue. The contributors to this volume discuss both theoretical and empirical issues of complementarity and critique, with an emphasis on the potential for integrating the viewpoints within a progressive ideational paradigm. Moreover, they make a self-conscious effort to interrogate, rather than gloss over, their differences in the hope that such disagreements will prove particularly rich sources of analytical and empirical insight