ISBN:
9780203845264
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (189 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
New International Relations Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Multiculturalism
;
Political culture
;
Group identity Political aspects
;
Group identity Case studies Political aspects
;
Ethnicity
;
International relations
;
Multiculturalism - Japan
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states. Providing a dialogical approach to questions of identity and alterity in International Relations, the author considers how identity is formed, maintained and transformed in continuous processes with alterity. This innovative book seeks to broaden understanding of identity and difference by developing a process-based perspective. It shifts the attention from a dichotomising view of the international to the multiple ways by which identity and difference are related. It challenges traditional conceptions of the international and argues that it is constituted by the processes in which states and other actors participate and is more than a spatial dimension constituted by states. Guillaume illustrates this complex theory with a detailed case study of how Japanese political community has formed, performed and transformed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in light of the questions of empire and multiculturalism. International Relations and Identity will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, international relations theory and Japanese studies.
Abstract:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration and translation -- Introduction -- 1 Toward processual identity: Identity/alterity and IR theory -- 2 A dialogical approach to the international -- 3 From orthodoxy to normalcy: Narrative matrices in modern Japan -- 4 Between homogeneity and heterogeneity: The question of multiculturalism in modern Japan -- 5 Conclusion: Unveiling the international -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration and translation; Introduction; 1 Toward processual identity: Identity/alterity and IR theory; 2 A dialogical approach to the international; 3 From orthodoxy to normalcy: Narrative matrices in modern Japan; 4 Between homogeneity and heterogeneity: The question of multiculturalism in modern Japan; 5 Conclusion: Unveiling the international; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=589604
Permalink
