Forgetting Ourselves

Secession and the (Im)possibility of Territorial Identity

Linda S. Bishai (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2006
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-2082-8 (ISBN)

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Secession is one of the richest veins yet to be mined in international relations. The unexplored concept of secession implicates a host of historical accomplices related to the development of industrial modernity and considerable changes in the nature of sovereignty and the state. By historicizing secession it becomes possible not only to explain the historical transformations that have led to the theoretical impasse on secession but to better articulate the possibilities for current transformative interactions. In Forgetting Ourselves, Linda Bishai thoroughly examines why secession has been ignored by international relations both in theory and practice. Mainstream perspectives in international relations theory have, up to this point, questioned neither state formation nor the inside/outside divide of state sovereignty. Bishai, however, historicizes and questions the concept of secession itself, and the component assumptions of territoriality and identity upon which it rests. Forgetting Ourselves places secession in its proper historical context as something possible only in the modern era and only perceived as a global threat within the last century. Bishai argues that understanding the historic contingency of secessionist conflict allows us to contemplate an alternative vision of international relations in which the violence associated with controlling territory is no longer necessary for validating political identities.

Linda Bishai is Assistant Professor of international relations at Towson University in Maryland where she teaches courses on international law, force and aggression, and international relations. Bishai was a research fellow on issues of intervention at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs.

Chapter 1 If at First You Don't Secede: International Relations Theory and Its Shortcomings
Chapter 2 Why the Patient Cannot be Cured
Chapter 3 States Taking Place: History and the Territorialization of Politics
Chapter 4 Begging to Differ: Patriots, Nationalists, Minorities
Chapter 5 Secessionist Performances, Narrating Otherness
Chapter 6 InConclusion: Forgetting and the Theory & Practice of the Self

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.12.2006
Reihe/Serie	Innovations in the Study of World Politics
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 232 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-7391-2082-4 / 0739120824
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-2082-8 / 9780739120828
Zustand	Neuware