Studying the Agency of Being Governed

225 Pages·2015·2.16 MB·English

by  Stina Hansson

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Studying the Agency of Being Governed
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2 This edited volume seeks to provide guidance on how we can approach
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International Relations Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and
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Véronique Pin-Fat
International Relations and
Non-Western Thought
The Time of the City Imperialism, colonialism and
Politics, philosophy, and genre investigations of global modernity
Michael J. Shapiro Edited by Robbie Shilliam
Autobiographical International Theorising Post-Conflict
Relations Reconciliation
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Edited by Naeem Inayatullah Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch
War and Rape Europe’s Encounter with Islam
Law, memory and justice The secular and the postsecular
Nicola Henry Luca Mavelli
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Politics of the Event Citizens and entrepreneurs in
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Method Climate Governance
After the aesthetic turn Reconstructing the greenhouse
Michael J. Shapiro Edited by Chris Methmann,
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urban encounters Void universalism I
Angharad Closs Stephens Sergei Prozorov
Theory of the Political Subject Genre and the (Post)Communist
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Visual Politics and North Korea Female Ideal
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David Shim and Michael Shapiro
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6 Institutional validation and the agencyof the researcher 74
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7 How to study power and collective agency: social movements and
the politics of international aid 85
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