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

by Beier, J. Marshall

• ISBN13: 9781403969026
• ISBN10: 1403969027
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-11
• 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

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Part 1 Responsibility	11	(118)
Revealing the Hegemonologue	13	(40)
Disciplinary International Relations and Its Disciplined Others	53	(20)
Ethnography, Ethics, and Advanced Colonialism	73	(24)
Lakota Lifeways: Continuity and Change in a Colonial Encounter	97	(32)
Part 2 (Re)Presentation	129	(84)
Advanced Colonialism and Pop-Culture Treatments of Indigenous North Americans	131	(24)
Travelogues: The Ethnographic Foundations of Orthodox International Theory	155	(26)
Emancipatory Violences	181	(32)
Part 3 Reflection	213	(12)
Conclusion: Recovering International Relations from Colonial Practice	215	(10)
Works Cited	225	(18)
Index	243