Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De)Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives

366 Pages·2016·18.27 MB·English

by  Anna M. Agathangelou

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Exploring time’s transformative promises, the texts assembled in this volume dare
to unsettle the spatializing political categories of world politics, which hide how
and why colonial and racial violence have constituted the global present.’
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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d Anna M. Agathangelou is Associate Professor in political science and women’s stud-
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Kyle D. Killian is a family therapist and core faculty in the Marriage and Family
Therapy Program at Capella University. He has published on intercultural and
interracial couples, refugee families, trauma and self-care and vicarious resilience
in helping professionals. A blogger at Psychology Today, Dr. Killian has devel-
oped measures of traumatic stress, critical thinking, cultural identity, vicarious
resilience, and emotional intelligence.
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