Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations PDF
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| Political Self-Sacrifice Overthelastdecadetheincreasing phenomenonofsuicideterrorismhas raisedquestionsabouthowitmightberationalforindividualstoengage in such acts. This book examines a range of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning and non-violent mar- tyrdom,allofwhichhavetakenplaceinresistancetoforeigninterference. Karin Fierke sets out to study the strategic and emotional dynamics that arisefromtheimageofthesufferingbody,includingpoliticalcontestation surrounding the identification of the victim as a terrorist or martyr, the meaning of the death as suicide or martyrdom and the extent to which this contributes to the reconstruction of community identity. Political Self-Sacrificeoffersacounterpointtorationalistaccountsofinternational terrorism in terrorist and security studies, and is a novel contribution to thegrowingliteratureontheroleofemotionandtraumaininternational politics. k. m. fierke is Professor of International Relations in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Her books include Changing Games, Changing Strategies: Critical Investigations in Security (1998), Diplomatic Interventions: Conflict and Change in a Globalizing World (2005), Critical Approaches to International Security (2007) and an edited collection with Knud Erik Jorgensen, International Relations:TheNextGeneration(2001).Shehasalsopublishedwidelyon topics related to constructivism and security as well as trauma, memory and political violence in a range of internationally recognized journals, includingInternationalStudiesQuarterly,theEuropeanJournalforInter- national Relations, International Theory, the Review of International StudiesandMillennium–JournalofInternationalStudies. | Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 125 Political Self-Sacrifice editors ChristianReus-Smit NicholasJ.Wheeler editorial board JamesDerDerian,MarthaFinnemore,LeneHansen,Robert Keohane,RachelKerr,InderjeetParmar,JanAartScholte,PeterVale, KeesvanderPijl,JuttaWeldes,JenniferWelsh,WilliamWohlforth CambridgeStudiesinInternationalRelationsisajointinitiativeofCambridge UniversityPressandtheBritishInternationalStudiesAssociation(BISA).The series will include a wide range of material, from undergraduate textbooks and surveys to research-based monographs and collaborative volumes. 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Firstpublished2013 PrintedandboundintheUnitedKingdombytheMPGBooksGroup AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata Fierke,K.M.(KarinM.) Politicalself-sacrifice:agency,bodyandemotionininternational relations/K.M.Fierke. p. cm.– (Cambridgestudiesininternationalrelations:125politicalself-sacrifice) ISBN978-1-107-02923-1(Hardback) 1. Internationalrelations–Psychologicalaspects. 2. Self-sacrifice–Politicalaspects. I. Title. JZ1253.F542012 327.10109–dc23 2012023307 ISBN978-1-107-02923-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. In memory of Mateo Castrillon (1993–2012)
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