A Poststructuralist Discourse Theory of Global Politics

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-55263-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3697 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in International Relations

This book develops a discourse theory of crisis and change in global politics. Crisis is conceptualized as structural dislocation, resting on difference and incompleteness. Change is seen as the continuous but ultimately futile effort to gain a full identity. The incompleteness and contingent character of the social represents the most important condition for democratic politics to become possible and for a theory of crisis and change to become conceivable. In this new understanding, crisis loses its everyday meaning of a periodically occurring event. Instead, crisis becomes an omnipresent feature of the social fabric. It represents the absence of ground, of social foundation, and it rests within the subject as well as within the social whole.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nabers, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1. Crisis.- 2. Change.- 3. Reality.- 4. Difference.- 5. Hegemony.- 6. Discourse Analysis.- 7. Dislocation.- 8. Hegemony: Towards a discourse theory of crisis and change.

Über Autor(innen)

Dirk Nabers is Professor of International Political Sociology at the University of Kiel, Germany. He has been Academic Director of the Hamburg International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers, and Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. He specializes in poststructuralism and sociology in IR.