Elizabeth Dauphinee - The Politics of Exile

Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. Exploring themes of personal and civilizational guilt, of displaced and fractured identity, of secrets and subterfuge, of love and alienation, of moral choice and the impossibility of ethics, this work challenges us to recognize pure narrative as an accepted form of writing in international relations.

The author brings theory to life and gives corporeal reality to a wide range of concepts in international relations, including an exploration of the ways in which young academics are initiated into a culture where the volume of research production is more valuable than its content, and where success is marked not by intellectual innovation, but by conformity to theoretical expectations in research and teaching.

This engaging work will be essential reading for all students and scholars of international relations and global politics.

Elizabeth Dauphinee is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research interests involve autoethnographic and narrative approaches to international relations, Levinasian ethics and international relations theory, and the philosophy of religion.

Interventions

Edited by Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick

As Michel Foucault has famously stated, knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. In this spirit the Edkins-Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopolitical imaginary.

Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, USA

The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics.

Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics.

Critical Theorists and International Relations

Edited by Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams

Ethics as Foreign Policy

Britain, the EU and the other

Dan Bulley

Universality, Ethics and International Relations

A grammatical reading

Vronique Pin-Fat

The Time of the City

Politics, philosophy, and genre

Michael J. Shapiro

Governing Sustainable Development

Partnership, protest and power at the world summit

Carl Death

Insuring Security

Biopolitics, security and risk

Luis Lobo-Guerrero

Foucault and International Relations

New critical engagements

Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Doug Stokes

International Relations and Non-Western Thought

Imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity

Edited by Robbie Shilliam

Autobiographical International Relations

I, IR

Edited by Naeem Inayatullah

War and Rape

War and Rape

Nicola Henry

Madness in International Relations

Psychology, security and the global governance of mental health

Alison Howell

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

Geographies of the nomos

Edited by Stephen Legg

Politics of Urbanism

Seeing like a city

Warren Magnusson

Beyond Biopolitics

Theory, violence and horror in world politics

Franois Debrix and Alexander D. Barder

The Politics of Speed

Capitalism, the state and war in an accelerating world

Simon Glezos

Politics and the Art of Commemoration

Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

Katherine Hite

Indian Foreign Policy

The politics of postcolonial identity

Priya Chacko

Politics of the Event

Time, movement, becoming

Tom Lundborg

Theorising Post-Conflict Reconciliation

Agonism, restitution and repair

Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch

Europe' Encounter with Islam

The secular and the postsecular

Luca Mavelli

Re-Thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction

Badredine Arfi

The New Violent Cartography

Geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn

Edited by Sam Okoth Opondo and Michael J. Shapiro

Insuring War

Sovereignty, security and risk

Luis Lobo-Guerrero

International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis

Necati Polat

The Postcolonial Subject

Claiming politics/governing others in late modernity

Vivienne Jabri

Foucault and the Politics of Hearing

Lauri Siisiinen

Volunteer Tourism in the Global South

Giving back in neoliberal times

Wanda Vrasti

Cosmopolitan Government in Europe

Citizens and entrepreneurs in postnational politics

Owen Parker

Studies in the Trans-Disciplinary Method

After the aesthetic turn

Michael J. Shapiro

Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The scars of violence

Brent J. Steele

Celebrity Humanitarianism

The ideology of global charity

Ilan Kapoor

Deconstructing International Politics

Michael Dillon

The Politics of Exile

Elizabeth Dauphinee

Democratic Futures

Revisioning democracy promotion

Milja Kurki

THE POLITICS OF EXILE

Elizabeth Dauphinee

First published 2013
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