International Relations in Uncommon Places Indigeneity, Cosmology, and the Limits of International Theory

by Beier, J. Marshall

• ISBN13: 9780230619074
• ISBN10: 023061907X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The central claim developed in this book is that disciplinary International Relations is identifiable as both an advanced colonial practice and a postcolonial subject. The book explores how IR has internalized many of the enabling narratives of colonialism in the Americas, evinced most tellingly in its failure to take notice of indigenous peoples. More fundamentally, IR is read as a knowing hegemonic Western voice that, owing to its universalist pretensions, asserts its knowledge to the exclusion of all others.

Author Biography

J. Marshall Beier is Assistant Professor of Political Science, McMaster University.

Table of Contents

Revealing the Hegemonologue * Disciplinary IR and Its Disciplined Others * Ethnography, Ethics, and Advanced Colonialism * Lakota Lifeways: Continuity and Change in a Colonial Encounter * Advanced Colonialism and Pop-Culture Treatments of Indigenous North Americans * Travelogues: The Ethnographic Foundations of Orthodox International Theory * Emancipatory Violences * Recovering International Relations from Colonial Practice