Meaning and international relations

Peter Mandaville, Andrew Williams9780415258128, 041525812X, 0203167554, 9780203167557, 9780203283103

The question of how one defines the central meaning of international relations is the focus of this edited volume. The contributors adopt a variety of theoretical perspectives drawing on postmodernism, feminism, Islam, classical realist theory and ethnopolitics.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
Acknowledgements……Page 8
Notes on contributors……Page 10
Introduction……Page 12
Meaning and international relations: some thoughts……Page 19
Surfing the Zeitgeist……Page 31
The delocalisation of meaning……Page 49
Meaning and social transformations: ideology in a post-ideological age……Page 62
Eurosomnia: Europe’s ‘spiritual vitality’ and the debate on the European idea……Page 76
Whose meaning(s)?! A feminist perspective on the crisis of meaning in international relations……Page 97
The search for meaning in global conjunctions: from ethnographic truth to ethnopolitical agency……Page 117
When meaning travels: Muslim translocality and the politics of ‘authenticity’……Page 128
Messianic moments and the religious (re)turn in international relations……Page 150
Reliving the Boxer uprising; or, the restricted meaning of civilisation……Page 164
On the danger of premature conclusion(s)……Page 171
Bibliography……Page 180
Index of names……Page 194