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Undisciplining IR: Beyond Mainstream International Relations

Editat de Priyanka Chandra
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iul 2026
This volume celebrates the groundbreaking contributions of Prof. A.K. Ramakrishnan, whose work has redefined International Relations through critical theory, postcolonial lenses, and transdisciplinary methods. By centring the “unarticulated body” and subaltern experience, this volume invites readers to undiscipline IR—one critical perspective at a time. Challenging hegemonic narratives, the volume interrogates mainstream IR epistemologies—from Orientalist frameworks to neoliberal paradigms—while centring non-Western knowledge systems. Through themes like Political Islam, social movements, and intersectional identities, it bridges cultural studies, philosophy, and grassroots politics to reveal how West Asia’s contested realities reshape global discourse. The chapters dissect pressing issues: the Palestinian genocide, refugee experiences, artificial intelligence in conflict, and the suppression of dissent, while theorising agency through poetry, memory, and spatiality. The volume argues for area studies as the core of IR, dismantling “great power politics” to prioritise marginalised voices and organic epistemologies of the Global South. Designed for scholars, policymakers, and activists, this book is essential for reimagining IR pedagogy and praxis. It serves as a key resource for students and faculty in Political Science, Postcolonial Studies, and West Asia scholarship, offering radical methodologies to decode democratisation, religion, and resistance. Think tanks, journalists, and diplomats will find its critiques of policy formulation and Orientalist discourse invaluable, while civil society actors gain tools to link local struggles to global justice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781041201731
ISBN-10: 1041201737
Pagini: 174
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Recenzii

‘This festschrift celebrates A.K. Ramakrishnan’s enduring challenge to hegemonic knowledge in IR. Through critical engagements with postcolonial theory, Islamic cosmopolitanism, gender, artificial intelligence, and the Palestinian question, the contributors demonstrate how IR must be “undisciplined” to confront its own colonial inheritances. The volume offers scholars of South and West Asia a rigorous and politically conscious framework for reimagining the discipline.’
                                                                                     - JAMES ONLEY, Ahmed Seddiqi Chair in Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Sharjah, UAE
‘Subscribing to A.K.Ramakrshnan’s line of thinking, this volume stands for a refocusing of IR theory away from the traditional domains of nation-state, power, diplomacy, and security. Repositioning the discipline which in its popular imagination is profoundly grounded in Eurocentric, elitist and statist experiences, this work draws attention to the differently situated experiences of people and movements of global south, such as women, minorities, refugees, whose voices were previously unheard of or completely excluded from the mainstream IR. Touching a relatively unchartered terrain, this book contributes significantly to the reimagining of conventional IR.’
                                                                                                     - M.H.ILIAS, Professor and former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
‘Deeply impressed by the excellence of the contents of the festschrift to honour the unique contributions made by Prof. Ramakrishnan to his discipline. His philosophical approach to the discipline is humanity- centred and not state-centred. For him the state is only an instrument devised by humans. As a professional diplomat, I recall with joy and gratitude my conversations with him. His work is a study in holistic reasoning and rare clarity.’
                                                                                                                                                                - Ambassador K.P. FABIAN, Professor, Symbiosis University, India

Cuprins

List of Contributors ix
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiii
1 On ‘Undisciplining’ 1
PRIYANKA CHANDRA
UNIT I
Reorienting the ‘Self’: Critical Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies 13
2 From Ideological Appropriations to Spatial Appropriation of Ideas 15
MATHEW A VARGHESE
3 Shi’i Rationalism through the Institution of Marji’at 24
KHAIRUNNISA AGA
4 Islamic Cosmopolitanism and Critique of Orientalist Discourses on Islam 40
PREMANAND MISHRA
UNIT II
Asserting the ‘Self’: Structures and Strategies in Praxis 55
5 Arab Refugee Women: An Intersectional Analysis of Refugee Experiences 57
AZEEMAH SALEEM
6 Family Law Reform and Inheritance Discourses in the Arab World 71
SHABISTA NAZ
7 Artificial Intelligence and the Reproduction of Colonial Power Structures in West Asian Conflicts 83
POOJA KOTWAL
8 Contemporary Politics and Cosmopolitanism in Iran: Lessons for IR Studies 99
UMESH KUMAR
UNIT III
Unconventional Archives 113
9 Olive Trees, Resistance, and Colonial Contestations in Palestine: A Political and Ecological Analysis 115
AYSHA SANA
10 Symptoms and the Symptomatologists: A Study of Settler Psychopathology 127
SHAKEEL ANJUM AND ANISSA HADDADI
11 Memory, Homeland, and Text: Re-imagining Liberation through Palestinian Struggle 139
ASHUTOSH SINGH
Index 156
 

Notă biografică

Priyanka Chandra is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA), O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonepat, India. She is co-director of the research series Critical Interventions in Arts and Cultural Studies, a transdisciplinary research programme that focuses on intersections of art, culture, and politics in the Global South. She is Senior Research Fellow at IDEAS, Office of Interdisciplinary Research, JGU. She obtained her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. She is the author of Postcoloniality and Statehood: The Case of Egypt (Routledge, 2026).

Descriere

This volume celebrates the groundbreaking contributions of Prof. A.K. Ramakrishnan, whose work has redefined International Relations through critical theory, postcolonial lenses, and transdisciplinary methods.