Against International Relations Norms

Name: Against International Relations Norms
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Against International Relations NormsPostcolonial Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Charlotte Epstein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138955981, 978-1138955981\nSynopsis\nThis volume uses the concept of norms to initiate a long overdue conversation between the constructivist and postcolonial scholarships on how to appraise the ordering processes of international politics. Drawing together insights from a broad range of scholars, it evaluates what it means to theorise international politics from a postcolonial perspective, understood not as a unified body of thought or a new -ism for IR, but as a situated perspective offering ex-centred, post-Eurocentric sites for practices of situated critique.\n\nThrough in-depth engagements with the norms constructivist scholarship, the contributors expose the theoretical, epistemological and practical erasures that have been implicitly effected by the uncritical adoption of norms as t.