Uses of the Other: "The East" in European Identity Formation (Borderlines) - Softcover

Neumann, Iver B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816630836 ISBN 13: 9780816630837

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 1998

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Examines identity politics in the context of international relations.

The field of international relations has recently witnessed a tremendous growth of interest in the theme of identity and its formation, construction, and deconstruction. In Uses of the Other, Iver B. Neumann demonstrates how thinking about identity in terms of the self and other may prove highly useful in the study of world politics.

Neumann begins by tracing the four different paths along which this thinking has developed during this century-ethnographic, psychological, Continental philosophical, and "Eastern excursion"-and he shows how these blended at the margins of the discipline of international relations at the end of the 1980s. There follow several incisive readings of European identity formations on the all-European, regional, and national levels.

The theme that draws these readings together is how "the East" is used as a sign of otherness at all three levels. Whereas previous studies framed this process as part of colonial and postcolonial developments, this book suggests that "Easternness" is also present as a marker in contemporary discourses about Russia, Turkey, Central Europe, and Bashkortostan, among others.

Situating his work in contemporary critical debates, Neumann argues that, while the self/other perspective is always of relevance, it is now more in need of being used as a perspective on specific sequences of identity formation than of further embellishment.

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248 Pages 5-7/8x9 November

Borderlines Series, Volume 9

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Iver B. Neumann is head of the Russian Research Centre, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0816630836
• ISBN 13: 9780816630837
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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