Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1802205802 ISBN 13: 9781802205800

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

This book examines the role of imagination in initiating, contesting, and changing the pathways of global cooperation. Building on carefully contextualized empirical cases from diverse policy fields, regions, and historical periods, it highlights the agency of a wide range of actors in reflecting on past and present experiences and imagining future ways of collective problem solving.

Chapters analyse the mobilizing, identity, cognitive, emotional, and normative effects through which imaginations shape pathways for global cooperation. Expert contributors consider the ways in which actors combine multiple layers of meaning-making through practices of staging the past and present as well as in their circulation. Exploring the contingency and open-endedness of processes of global cooperation, the book challenges more systemic and output-oriented perspectives of global governance. Its synthesis of ways in which imaginations inform processes of creating, contesting, and changing pathways for global cooperation provides a novel conceptual approach to the study of global cooperation.

Interdisciplinary in approach, this authoritative book offers new ways of thinking about global cooperation to scholars and students of international relations, development studies, law and politics, international theory, global sociology, and global history as well as practitioners and policy-makers across various policy fields.

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Edited by Katja Freistein, Academy of International Affairs NRW, Germany, Bettina Mahlert, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Sigrid Quack, Professor of Sociology and Managing Director and Christine Unrau, Research Group Leader, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1802205802
• ISBN 13: 9781802205800
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Freistein Katja, Mahlert Bettina, Quack Sigrid, Unrau Christine