{"product_id":"imagining-world-politics-sihar-shenya-a-fable-for-our-times-paperback","title":"Imagining World Politics: Sihar \u0026 Shenya, a Fable for Our Times - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eL. H. M. Ling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a non-Western feminist perspective on world politics and international relations. Creative, innovative, and challenging, it seeks completely to transform contemporary Eurocentric and masculinist IR by re-presenting it in non-Western, non-masculinist, and non-academic terms. Drawing on Daoist dialectics, the stories of Sihar and Shenya aim to redress such hegemonic imbalance by completing the IR story. To the \u003cem\u003eyang\u003c\/em\u003e of power politics, this book offers a \u003cem\u003eyin\u003c\/em\u003e of fairy-tale. (Both are equally fantastical but to different purposes.) To the \u003cem\u003eyang\u003c\/em\u003e of binary categories like Self vs Other, West vs Rest, hypermasculinity vs hyperfemininity, Sihar and Shenya show their \u003cem\u003eyin\u003c\/em\u003e complementarities and complicities, inside and out, top and bottom, center and periphery. And to the \u003cem\u003eyang\u003c\/em\u003e of intransigent hegemony, \u003cem\u003eSihar \u0026amp; Shenya\u003c\/em\u003e explores the \u003cem\u003eyin\u003c\/em\u003e of emancipation through porous, water-like thought and behavior through venues like aesthetics and emotions. From this basis, we begin to see another world with another kind of politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with students of IR and world politics in mind, this book offers a postcolonial bridge for IR\/WP. Following an academic introduction to assist the reader, Ling moves away from traditional scholarship and into three interlocking fables: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBook I shows what an alternative world could look and feel like.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBook II makes the implications for IR\/WP more explicit. It draws on the traditional Chinese notion of the five movements (\u003ci\u003ewu xing\u003c\/i\u003e) -- fire, metal, earth, wood, and water -- to illustrate iconic elements of IR\/WP -- power, wealth, security, love, and knowledge -- and how they could change according to circumstance and context.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEpilogue\/Introduction: The Return brings the reader back into the Western world and focuses on modern-day PhD student Wanda who is troubled by what she is learning, and searches for a different perspective.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngaging with the substantive problematiques at the heart of international relations studies, this work is a unique and innovative resource for all students and scholars of international relations and world politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eL.H.M. Ling\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the New School for Public Engagement (NSPE) and Associate Professor of International Affairs, The New School. She is also author of \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eDao\u003ci\u003e of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.5 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755827396896,"sku":"9780415718868","price":89.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6f53b936b54423c8e2249e4c63349b2d.webp?v=1780069072","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/imagining-world-politics-sihar-shenya-a-fable-for-our-times-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}