Global Politics

Höfundur: Jenny Edkins (Útgáfa: 4)
Global Politics

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Global Politics: A New Introduction engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. From that innovative starting point, it explores key issues through a critical and inquiring perspective, presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition offers examples engaging with the latest developments in global politics: the climate crisis and anthropocentrism, Indigenous experiences and thinking, racism and the rise of xenophobia, artificial intelligence, citizen journalism, global health and pandemic response and drone warfare.

Global Politics: • examines most significant issues in global politics – poverty, development, colonialism, human rights, gender, inequality, race, war, peacebuilding, security, violence, nationalism, authority and what we can do to change the world; • offers chapters written to a common structure ideal for teaching and learning and features a key question, an illustrative example, general responses and broader issues; • integrates theory and practice throughout the text, drawing on international relations, political theory, postcolonial studies, sociology, geography, peace studies and development.

Nánar um bókina

Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781040183755
Print ISBN
9781032520858
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
4
Höfundar
Jenny Edkins
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-01-31
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Endorsements
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Teaching with Global Politics: A New Introduction
  • 1 Introduction
  • The Question: What does this introduction to global politics do?
  • Illustrative Example: How do we use illustrative examples?
  • General Responses: What sorts of responses might there be?
  • Broader Issues: What assumptions do we start from?
  • Conclusion
  • 2 How do we begin to think about the world?
  • The Question: Where do we think from?
  • Illustrative Example: Indigenous experience in Patagonia
  • General Responses: Thinking about land
  • Broader Issues: The politics of academic practice
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Why do some people think they know what is good for others?
  • The Question: Giving and receiving
  • Illustrative Example: God’s purpose: early Christian incursions
  • General Responses: History’s progress: contemporary interventions
  • Broader Issues: Diagnosing the need for exclusive knowledge
  • Conclusion
  • 4 When do we think global politics began?
  • The Question: Thinking about origins
  • Illustrative Example: Understanding Mesopotamia
  • General Responses: Ways of thinking about the past
  • Broader Issues: Limits to knowing beginnings
  • Conclusion
  • 5 What if we don’t take nature for granted?
  • The Question: From humans to the more-than-human
  • Illustrative Example: Why are forests important?
  • General Responses: How can we protect forests?
  • Broader Issues: Indigenous knowledges and multispecies justice
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Can we save the planet?
  • The Question: Environmental politics and social movements
  • Illustrative Example: The fossil fuel divestment movement
  • General Responses: Can protest movements really change anything?
  • Broader Issues: Individualisation, governmentality and counter-conduct
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Who do we think we are?
  • The Question: Narratives and politics
  • Illustrative Example: Feminist movements in the US
  • General Responses: How can we conceptualise identity?
  • Broader Issues: How does group identification shape (global) politics?
  • Conclusion
  • 8 How do religious beliefs affect politics?
  • The Question: The role of religion today
  • Illustrative Example: Islamic states and movements
  • General Responses: Do religion and politics mix?
  • Broader Issues: Culture and religious identities
  • Conclusion
  • 9 Why do we obey?
  • The Question: Obedience, resistance and force
  • Illustrative Example: The revolutions of 1989
  • General Responses: Authority and legitimacy
  • Broader Issues: Thinking about power
  • Conclusion
  • 10 How do we find out what’s going on in the world?
  • The Question: The mediation of information
  • Illustrative Example: Changing news representations of war
  • General Responses: The media, power and democracy
  • Broader Issues: How to read the media
  • Conclusion
  • 11 What does AI do to politics?
  • The Question: Politics and the rise of artificial intelligence
  • Illustrative Example: UNHCR and AI humanitarianism
  • General Responses: Debating the politics of AI
  • Broader Issues: AI knowledge as world-making
  • Conclusion
  • 12 Why is people’s movement restricted?
  • The Question: Anti-migration policies and practices
  • Illustrative Example: Refugee ‘crises’: then and now
  • General Responses: The nation, state and the politics of border control
  • Broader Issues: A racialised global order
  • Conclusion
  • 13 Where do we think we are from?
  • The Question: National affiliations
  • Illustrative Example: The margins of the Chinese nation
  • General Responses: Nationalism studies
  • Broader Issues: Transnationalism and hybridity
  • Conclusion
  • 14 Does the nation-state work?
  • The Question: States, nations and allegiance
  • Illustrative Example: Worlds of unease within the nation-state
  • General Responses: Stories of coherent nationhood
  • Broader Issues: An alternative political imaginary
  • Conclusion
  • 15 How is the world organised economically?
  • The Question: Competing visions of the good life
  • Illustrative Example: Health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • General Responses: Problematising versus normalising crises
  • Broader Issues: How to change the economy for people and planet
  • Conclusion
  • 16 How does colonialism work?
  • The Question: Colonialism and underdevelopment
  • Illustrative Example: India and Britain
  • General Responses: What is modern colonialism?
  • Broader Issues: The psychology of colonialism
  • Conclusion
  • 17 Do colonialism and slavery belong to the past?
  • The Question: Slavery: abolition and continuation
  • Illustrative Example: Colonialism and capitalist development in Côte d’Ivoire
  • General Responses: The effects of adjustment: deproletarianisation and modern slavery
  • Broader Issues: Is today’s world postcolonial or neo-colonial?
  • Conclusion
  • 18 How does finance affect the politics of everyday life?
  • The Question: Politics and everyday life
  • Illustrative Example: Finance and the financial crisis
  • General Responses: The politics of the financial crisis
  • Broader Issues: Re-politicising finance, re-politicising everyday life
  • Conclusion
  • 19 How can we end poverty?
  • The Question: The global poor and campaigns to end poverty
  • Illustrative Example: Modernisation and microfinance in South Asia
  • General Responses: From the developmental state to biopolitics
  • Broader Issues: Alternative visions of modernity
  • Conclusion
  • 20 Why does politics turn to violence?
  • The Question: Mass killing as a cultural phenomenon
  • Illustrative Example: Killing in wartime
  • General Responses: Belligerent states
  • Broader Issues: Language and memory
  • Conclusion
  • 21 What makes the world dangerous?
  • The Question: Perceptions of danger
  • Illustrative Example: Drones in Daykundi
  • General Responses: Debating drones
  • Broader Issues: Discourses of danger
  • Conclusion
  • 22 Can we move beyond conflict?
  • The Question: Dealing with seemingly intractable conflicts
  • Illustrative Example: The conflict in Korea
  • General Responses: Confrontation and engagement: two approaches to conflict
  • Broader Issues: Dealing with antagonism
  • Conclusion
  • 23 Who has rights?
  • The Question: Whose rights?
  • Illustrative Example: The French headscarf ban and Je (ne) Suis (pas) Charlie!
  • General Responses: Rights and religion in France
  • Broader Issues: Racialisation, colonisation and gender rights
  • Conclusion
  • 24 Conclusion: What can we do to change the world?
  • The Question: Changing what’s wrong with the world
  • Illustrative Example: The Iraq War
  • General Responses: No right way forward
  • Broader Issues: Change and complicity
  • Conclusion
  • List of figures
  • List of boxes
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of permissions
  • Index of names
  • General index