The Politics of Exile (Interventions)

The Politics of Exile (Interventions)
Elizabeth Dauphinee (Author)

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Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. Exploring themes of personal and civilizational guilt, of displaced and fractured identity, of secrets and subterfuge, of love and alienation, of moral choice and the impossibility of ethics, this work challenges us to recognise pure narrative as an accepted form of writing in international relations.

The author brings theory to life and gives corporeal reality to a wide range of concepts in international relations, including an exploration of the ways in which young academics are initiated into a culture where the volume of research production is more valuable than its content, and where success is marked not by intellectual innovation, but by conformity to theoretical expectations in research and teaching.

This engaging work will be essential reading for all students and scholars of international relations and global politics.

• Rank: #423046 in Books
• Published on: 2013-03-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Description #1 by Bookdepository.com:

Irish Society, Anglo-Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship : Hardback : Sandpiper Books : 9780198221548 : 0198221541 : 01 Jan 1990 : In this study of Anglo-Norman intervention in Ireland during the reign of Henry II (1154-89), Flanagan explores the origins of the political link between Ireland and the English crown. She focuses on the reasons why Diarmait Mac Murchada, the exiled king of Leinster, hired Anglo-Norman mercenaries to help him regain his kingdom; why Anglo-Norman settlers from South Wales accepted his offer of employment in Ireland; and why this in turn provoked a reaction from King Henry II, who intervened in person...

Description #2 by TextbookX.com:

Between 1959 and his death ten years later, Adorno published fourteen paperback collections of his work, often combining revised and new essays-publications intended for an educated and politically and culturally influential audience. Two collections of those works combined in this one volume -'Interventions: Nine Critical Models' (1963) and 'Catchwords: Critical Models II' (1969) -are passionate examples of Adorno's postwar commitment to unmasking the culture that engendered Nazism and its antihumanist nightmare. Included here are Adorno's practical recommendations for reform in primary and higher education, his explanation for the enduring therapeutic value of psychoanalysis, and his appeal to raise public awareness of 'propaganda tricks' that exploit prejudice and chauvinism. The collection also includes new translations of such classic pieces as 'Why Still Philosophy, ' 'Note on the Human Sciences and Culture, ' and 'Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America, ' a memoir of his exile in th United States. Author: Adorno, Theodor W., Pickford, Henry W. ISBN-10: 0231076355

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The evil Duke of Olasko is lord no more -- vanquished by his nemesis Tal Hawkins, the Talon of the Silver Hawk. Saved by a mage's intervention from certain death, the once-feared despot has been reduced to an exile's existence, forced to wander the harshest realms of the world he once enslaved. Conclave of Shadows: Book Three Only days ago, Kaspar, the powerful Duke of Olasko, had great armies at his command and was feared by nations. Now, half a world away from home, he is separated from his former seat of power by merciless deserts, forbidding mountains, and vast oceans. The fall of the tyrant is complete, his dark dreams of vengeance overwhelmed by the daily struggle for his very survival. But Kaspar's prodigious skills and cunning provide him the opportunity he seeks, guarding merchant travelers returning to the other side of the world and back to his homeland. Yet there is a larger drama that will entangle the broken dictator. An evil more devastating and deadly than any encou