Undisciplining IR

Beyond Mainstream International Relations
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-20173-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chandra, Priyanka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).