Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Teaching with Global Politics: A New Introduction
• 1 Introduction
  • THE QUESTION What does this introduction to global politics do?
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE How do we use illustrative examples?
  • GENERAL RESPONSES What sorts of responses might there be?
  • BROADER ISSUES What assumptions do we start from?
  • CONCLUSION
• 2 How do we begin to think about the world?
  • THE QUESTION Thinking and language
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The Syrian refugee crisis
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Thought experiments as ways of thinking
  • BROADER ISSUES Thinking about thinking
  • CONCLUSION
• 3 What happens if we don’t take nature for granted?
  • THE QUESTION From environment to biosphere
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Climate change
  • GENERAL RESPONSES How do we frame the issue in terms of global politics?
  • BROADER ISSUES Challenging carboniferous capitalism
  • CONCLUSION
• 4 Can we save the planet?
  • THE QUESTION Environmental politics and social movements
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The fossil fuel divestment movement
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Can protest movements really change anything?
  • BROADER ISSUES Individualisation, governmentality and counter-conduct
  • CONCLUSION
• 5 Who do we think we are?
  • THE QUESTION Narratives and politics
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Feminist movements in the U.S.
  • GENERAL RESPONSES How can we conceptualise identity?
  • BROADER ISSUES How does group identification shape (global) politics?
  • CONCLUSION
• 6 How do religious beliefs affect politics?
  • THE QUESTION The role of religion today
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Islamic states and movements
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Do religion and politics mix?
  • BROADER ISSUES Culture and religious identities
  • CONCLUSION
• 7 Why do we obey?
  • THE QUESTION Obedience, resistance, and force
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The revolutions of 1989
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Authority and legitimacy
  • BROADER ISSUES Thinking about power
  • CONCLUSION
• 8 How do we find out what’s going on in the world?
  • THE QUESTION The mediation of information
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Changing news representations of war
  • GENERAL RESPONSES The media, power, and democracy
  • BROADER ISSUES How to read the media
  • CONCLUSION
• 9 How does the way we use the Internet make a difference?
  • THE QUESTION The Internet and us
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Political uprisings and Internet geopolitics
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Regulation, censorship, and rights
  • BROADER ISSUES Global futures
  • CONCLUSION
• 10 Why is people’s movement restricted?
  • THE QUESTION Border crossings
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The US–Mexico border and the immigration crisis
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Ideas of states and citizenship
  • BROADER ISSUES Cultural racism
  • CONCLUSION
• 11 Why is the world divided territorially?
  • THE QUESTION Forms of political and geographical organisation
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The development of the European territorial state
  • GENERAL RESPONSES The emergence of territory
  • BROADER ISSUES Techniques and the future of the territorial state
  • CONCLUSION
• 12 How do people come to identify with nations?
  • THE QUESTION National affiliations
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The margins of the Chinese nation
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Nationalism studies
  • BROADER ISSUES Transnationalism and hybridity
  • CONCLUSION
• 13 Does the nation-state work?
  • THE QUESTION States, nations, and allegiance
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Worlds of unease within the nation-state
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Stories of coherent nationhood
  • BROADER ISSUES An alternative political imaginary
  • CONCLUSION
• 14 Is democracy a good idea?
  • THE QUESTION Democracy
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Democracy in Argentina
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Democracy, populism and human rights struggle
  • BROADER ISSUES Where do we start our thinking about democracy?
  • CONCLUSION
• 15 Do colonialism and slavery belong to the past?
  • THE QUESTION Slavery: abolition and continuation
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Colonialism and capitalist development in Ivory Coast
  • GENERAL RESPONSES The effects of adjustment: deproletarianisation and modern slavery
  • BROADER ISSUES Is today’s world postcolonial or neo-colonial?
  • CONCLUSION
• 16 How does colonialism work?
  • THE QUESTION Colonialism and underdevelopment
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE India and Britain
  • GENERAL RESPONSES What is modern colonialism?
  • BROADER ISSUES The psychology of colonialism
  • CONCLUSION
• 17 How is the world organised economically?
  • THE QUESTION From local markets to global political economy
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Formal and informal work
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Explaining the politics of economics
  • BROADER ISSUES The hidden costs of neoliberalism
  • CONCLUSION
• 18 How does finance affect the politics of everyday life?
  • THE QUESTION Politics and everyday life
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Finance and the financial crisis
  • GENERAL RESPONSES The politics of the financial crisis
  • BROADER ISSUES Re-politicising finance, re-politicising everyday life
  • CONCLUSION
• 19 Why are some people better off than others?
  • THE QUESTION Sources of inequality
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Inequality in the age of neoliberal reform
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Liberal and developmental perspectives on inequality
  • BROADER ISSUES Historical materialism and the expansion of the global working class
  • CONCLUSION
• 20 How can we end poverty?
  • THE QUESTION The global poor and campaigns to end poverty
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Modernisation and microfinance in South Asia
  • GENERAL RESPONSES From the developmental state to biopolitics
  • BROADER ISSUES Alternative visions of modernity
  • CONCLUSION
• 21 Why do some people think they know what is good for others?
  • THE QUESTION Giving and receiving
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE God’s purpose: early Christian incursions
  • GENERAL RESPONSES History’s progress: contemporary interventions
  • BROADER ISSUES Diagnosing the need for exclusive knowledge
  • CONCLUSION
• 22 Why does politics turn to violence?
  • THE QUESTION Mass killing as a cultural phenomenon
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Killing in wartime
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Belligerent states
  • BROADER ISSUES Language and memory
  • CONCLUSION
• 23 What makes the world dangerous?
  • THE QUESTION Perceptions of danger
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Drones in Daykundi
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Debating drones
  • BROADER ISSUES Discourses of danger
  • CONCLUSION
• 24 Can we move beyond conflict?
  • THE QUESTION Dealing with seemingly intractable conflicts
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The conflict in Korea
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Confrontation and engagement: two approaches to conflict
  • BROADER ISSUES Dealing with antagonism
  • CONCLUSION
• 25 Who has rights?
  • THE QUESTION Whose rights?
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The French headscarf ban and Je (ne) suis (pas) Charlie!
  • GENERAL RESPONSES Rights and religion in France
  • BROADER ISSUES Bare life, human rights and sovereign power
  • CONCLUSION
• 26 Conclusion: What can we do to change the world?
  • THE QUESTION Changing what’s wrong with the world
  • ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The Iraq war
  • GENERAL RESPONSES No right way forward
  • BROADER ISSUES Change and complicity
  • CONCLUSION
• List of figures
• List of boxes
• Acknowledgements and permissions
• Index of names
• General index

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