The book analyses the notions of crisis and social change from a radical discourse theoretical perspective. Crisis is conceptualized as structural dislocation, which denotes temporally and locally split subjectivities, and societal change is understood on the basis of a thoroughly articulated theory of difference. Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Num Pages: 292 pages, 9 colour illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 1 colour tables. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . .

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Title: A Poststructuralist Discourse Theory of Global Politics (Palgrave Studies in International Relations)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1137528060
ISBN 13: 9781137528063
Binding: Hardcover
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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.

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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.

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