Posthuman International Relations: Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics - Couverture souple

Cudworth, Doctor Erika; Hobden, Doctor Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848135157 ISBN 13 : 9781848135154

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Cudworth Erika Hobden Stephen

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Erika Cudworth is Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Sociology at the University of East London. Her research interests are in political theory, broadly conceived, particularly feminisms, ecologisms and complexity theory, food consumption and production, human relations with non-human animals and educational inclusions/exclusions. She is author of Environment and Society (Routledge, 2003), Developing Ecofeminist Theory: the Complexity of Difference (Palgrave, 2005), The Modern State: Theories and Ideologies (with Tim Hall and John McGovern, Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Social Lives with Other Animals: Tales of Sex, Death and Love (Palgrave, 2011). ----- Stephen Hobden is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of East London. His main areas of interest are International Relations Theory, China in world politics, and North-South relations. He is the author of International Relations and Historical Sociology: Breaking Down Boundaries (Routledge, 1998), and edited, together with John Hobson, Historical Sociology of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden call for a profound re-thinking of the study of international relations. As a discipline, it continues to remain wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the hazards of nature, and thus is fully human-centred in its approach. The has resulted in a dualistic understanding of human relations with 'the environment', in which humans are either threatened by or pose a threat to 'nature'. Whilst we are undoubtedly in a situation of risk, the authors argue that this is in fact shaped by histories of social relations, economic practices and formations of political power. ----- By contrast, Posthuman International Relations draws on recent advances in thinking about systems derived from complexity theory to develop an analysis of international relations embedded within broader environmental circumstances. In doing so, Cudworth and Hobden demonstrate how combining insights from complexity theory with ecological thinking can provide a new agenda for a progressive and critical International Relations of the twenty-first century.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848135157
• ISBN 13: 9781848135154
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224