Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations

This is a book on methods, how scholars embody them and how working within, from or against constructivism has shaped that use and embodiment.

Autorentext

Brent J. Steele **is Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA.

Harry D. Gould **is Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University, USA.

Oliver Kessler is Associate Professor at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I: Interpreting Constructivism 1. Third Generation Constructivism: Between Tactics and Strategy 2. A Tactical Guide to Conceptual Analysis 3. Social Constructivism and Actor-Network Theory: Bridging the Divide 4. Tactics of a Constructivist Pedagogy Part II: Discourse, Interpretation and Methods 5. Narrative Analysis as a Tactical Bridge 6. Identities as Tactics: Exposing Relational Foreign Policy as Story 7. Constructivism, Computational Social-Relational Methods, and Multiple Correspondence Analysis Part III: Constructivism and the Interpretive Methods of the Self 8. When Home is Part of the Field: Experiencing Uncanniness of Home in Field Conversations 9. A Reflexivity that Works for Us: Ethics Beyond Norms 10. Feminist Curiosity as Method: On (Limits to) Tactical Uses of Constructivism 11. Researching within the Instability of Meaning: Decolonial Voices and Practices 12. Constructing a Scholar on the Road Less Travelled 13. Tactics All The Way Down: The Politics of Exteriority in Constructivism Part IV: Construction and the Interpretation of History and Texts 14. How To Do (Differing) Things With Words: World-Making and (or) Meaning-Making 15. Stubbornly Stumbling into Making History: Constructivism and Historical International Relations