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Posthuman International Relations

Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics

Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden

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In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the 'hazards' of nature, and thus remains constrained by its blinkered 'human-centred' approach.

Furthermore, as a means of predicting major global-political events and trends, it has failed consistently. Instead, the authors argue, it is essential we develop a much more nuanced and sophisticated analysis of global political systems, taking into account broader environmental circumstances, as well as social relations, economic practices and formations of political power.

Essentially, the book reveals how the study of international politics is transformed by the understanding that we have never been exclusively human. An original work that is sure to provoke heated debate within the discipline, Posthuman International Relations combines insights from complexity theory and ecological thinking to provide a radical new agenda for a progressive, twenty-first century, International Relations.

Author Bio

Erika Cudworth is Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Sociology at the University of East London.

Stephen Hobden is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of East London. 

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introducing Complexity and Posthumanism to International Politics 
  • 2. Complexity Theory in the Study of the Social World 
  • 3. Complex International Systems 
  • 4. Emergent Features in International Systems 
  • 5. Complex Ecologism 
  • 6. The Politics of Posthumanism 
  • 7. For a Posthuman International Relations 
  • Bibliography

Reviews

'Scholars and practitioners in many disciplines/areas will find this illuminating and trenchant'.
John Urry, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

'Cudworth and Hobden make a radical assault on the common wisdoms of the study of world politics. They do not merely rethink IR, they reinvent it.'
Emilian Kavalski, University of Western Sydney

'This book will surely be at the forefront of a new materialism in IR.'
Colin Wight, Professor, Government and International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

Details

Publication Date: 8 December 2011
224 pages

Product ISBNs: Paperback: 9781848135154
Hardback: 9781848135147
eBook ePub: 9781780322216
eBook Kindle: 9781780322223

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