Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed WorldLanguage matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate history and produce discourses about themselves and about the world. This insight has induced a profound reexamination of assumptions in the study of international relations. The contributors to this volume examine (Part I) the critical linguistic/discursive techniques of postmodernists and constructivists, and apply them (Part II) to international relations. |
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Self Other Agent | |
Constructivist International Relations Theory and the Semantics | |
Language and Method in International Relations | |
Three Ways of Spilling Blood | |
Discursivity and Concursivity in International | |
Speech Acts Normativity and the Postcolonial Gaze | |
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