Laura Zanotti

Ontological Entanglements, Agency and Ethics in International Relations (eBook, PDF)

Exploring the Crossroads

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The implications for ethics and political agency of embracing an ontology of entanglement have remained unexplored. This work focuses on the importance of addressing the ontological and epistemological assumptions of the discipline of International Relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351854115
• Artikelnr.: 56843101

Autorenporträt

Laura Zanotti is Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, USA. Prior to joining academia Zanotti has worked in peacekeeping and peacebuilding at the United Nations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Questioning substantialism in unsuspected places: anarchy,
empire and the power of ideas. 2. Re-thinking causality and structures: the
critical materialist position. 3. Quantum entanglements: intra agential
agency and the ethos of practice. 4. Entangled agency: re-thinking subjects
and power. 5. Entangled norms: archives, the non-transparency of meaning
and ethics. 6. Intra-agential realism and the relevance of International
Relations for practice. 7. Imagining an intra-agential ethos.8. Relying on
abstractions, relinquishing responsibility: Rwanda, Srebrenica, Haiti,
Syria and other disasters. 9. Intra-agential agency, an ethos of
responsibility and practical solidarity: providing medical care to the
poor. Conclusions.