Myth and Narrative in International Politics Interpretive Approaches
This book systematically explores how different theoretical concepts of myth can be utilised to interpretively explore contemporary international politics. From the international community to warlords, from participation to effectiveness – international p
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Myth and Narrative in International Politics
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara Editor
Myth and Narrative in International Politics Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR
Editor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara Aberystwyth University United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-53751-5 ISBN 978-1-137-53752-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53752-2
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FOREWORD
Academic studies—international relations (IR), security studies, political science, public policy studies, and other social sciences—are fully taken up with articulating things, ideas, events, and so on in words. Even the renewed attention to the material aspects of the social world and visual methods for studying them has not—and cannot—displace our engagement with spoken and written language as the medium through which we communicate. Such verbalisation requires that knowing and its communication be made explicit. And yet in that focus on the explicit rendering of acts, events, ideas, thoughts, experiences, and so on another dimension of human life is disappeared: tacit knowledge and its place in human affairs. Both the concept of tacit knowledge and Michael Polanyi’s (1966) exploration of it, which are central to this realm of inquiry, remain underutilised resources in analysing the social world and, in particular, its political dimensions. So the notion that we might communicate with one another through silences perhaps seems odd, or even an oxymoron. But this is, as I have argued elsewhere and as the ch
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