This book presents a collective mediation on writing, methods, violences, and un/becomings in global politics. It combines narratives, fictional stories, academic discussions, passionate unwindings, imagined futures, and more. The editor's intention is to offer a theoretically creative work which engages extensively with the visual and affective to un-discipline knowledge and modes of expression. The book's point of departure is a conventional academic conference and its peculiar academic concerns (which many readers will only be too familiar with), using this to open up to broader and deeper concerns about everyday-level decisions, realities, and perspectives that feed into and make global politics. It is a polyvocal text that collects traces of thinking, learning, conversing, embodying and 'finding out', in an attempt to make visible some of the avalanches of discarded knowing practices. In this sense, this book is a methods book as much as a political/theoretical text that demands we (better) understand or know the worlds we enter, inhabit, to make it quiver otherwise.
shine choi is lecturer at the school of people, environment and planning at Massey University. She is associate editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics. Saara Sarma is postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University. She is the co-founder of the Feminist Think Tank Hattu. Cristina Masters is lecturer in international politics at the University of Manchester. Marysia Zalewski is professor of international relations at Cardiff University. Her research has been supported by the British Academy, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and The British Council. In recognition of her international research profile, her major impact on the development of critical IR, and her mentorship of junior scholars, she was presented with an Eminent Scholar Award in 2013 by the International Studies Association. Michelle Lee Brown is postdoctoral researcher in indigenous politics at the University of Hawaii. Swati Parashar is professor in Peace and Development at the University of Gothenburg.
Part I 1: how to read this book that is not a book 2: frankenstinian encounters: feeling the ways 3: on writing 4: collective writing/writing collectively 5: playground relations 6: calling out (via) disjunctures 7: what is at stake? A pause, a breather: I was distracted ... PART II 8: black cats, the seduction of usefulness and cracks 9: perverse love letter 10: writing exhaustion - the unbearable weight of white feminism 11: composting anger: why I/we refuse your 'diversity' and the 'womanofcolour' tag 12: planet white boys 13: on exhaustion and enchantment 14: can feminism be a comma? 15: exhausted (again) of the normal 16: academic friendships and angers (not?) worth holding onto 17: on writing and this book PART III 18: a shaking... 19: feminist practices of knowledge formation... 20: trajectories....? 21: imagining other futures... 22: dreaming of other futures... 23: Poetics of a handbook - or some suggestions for better practices... (for those still in academia...) 24: be(com)ing undisciplined...
