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Chaves, Elisabeth Kerry.
Writing that W/rights Politics? – An Examination of the Re-viewing Practices of Telos, The Public Interest, and the Journal as an Institution of Criticism.
Degree: PhD, Planning, Governance, and Globalization, 2011, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77101 
► My dissertation explores the relationship between journals and the political. Using the modern examples of The Public Interest and Telos, I analyze how critical journals…
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▼ My dissertation explores the relationship between journals and the political. Using the modern examples of The Public Interest and Telos, I analyze how critical journals write politics. As a scholar, I am interested in writing practices and how they shape epistemologies, ontologies, and Weltanschauungen; in essence, how they act as narratives of power. The practice I have undertaken to study in this dissertation is the practice of reviewing. The etymology of the word "review" is "to see again." Tracing the review form to its institutionalization in the early 19th century in Great Britain and bringing it forward to the late 20th century in the United States, I analyze how critical journals "see again," whether they challenge how the state "sees," or whether they conform to the state's view. I argue that by writing about politics and re-viewing the state's writing of politics, critical journals also contribute to the wrighting (or making) of political realities.
Advisors/Committee Members: Luke, Timothy W. (committeechair), Watson, R. Janell (committee member), Nelson, Scott G. (committee member), Natter, Wolfgang George (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: writing practices; intellectuals; state; political journals; reviews
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Chaves, E. K. (2011). Writing that W/rights Politics? – An Examination of the Re-viewing Practices of Telos, The Public Interest, and the Journal as an Institution of Criticism. (Doctoral Dissertation). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77101
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chaves, Elisabeth Kerry. “Writing that W/rights Politics? – An Examination of the Re-viewing Practices of Telos, The Public Interest, and the Journal as an Institution of Criticism.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Virginia Tech. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77101.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chaves, Elisabeth Kerry. “Writing that W/rights Politics? – An Examination of the Re-viewing Practices of Telos, The Public Interest, and the Journal as an Institution of Criticism.” 2011. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Chaves EK. Writing that W/rights Politics? – An Examination of the Re-viewing Practices of Telos, The Public Interest, and the Journal as an Institution of Criticism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Virginia Tech; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77101.
Council of Science Editors:
Chaves EK. Writing that W/rights Politics? – An Examination of the Re-viewing Practices of Telos, The Public Interest, and the Journal as an Institution of Criticism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Virginia Tech; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77101
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Barden, Abbey R.
Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'.
Degree: MA, History, 2006, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31971
► Guy de Maupassantâ s short stories â Une Aventure Parisienneâ and â Le Signeâ tell the tales of two female protagonists caught by curiosity. In…
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▼ Guy de Maupassantâ s short stories â Une Aventure Parisienneâ and â Le Signeâ tell the tales of two female protagonists caught by curiosity. In â Une Aventure Parisienne,â a notaryâ s wife (the petite provinciale) leaves her home and ventures to Paris in search of an affair with a celebrity. After finding one and sleeping with him, the petite provinciale becomes disillusioned with her fantasy: she returns home deflated from the realization that her celebrity snores and drools just as her husband does. The high-society protagonist in â Le Signe,â Madame de Grangerie, is also disenchanted with her interest in imitating the gesture of a prostitute she notices across the street. When faced with a male client she frantically gives in to what she has offered. Needing to reaffirm her identity as an â honnête femme,â she solicits advice from her friend on what to do if the client returns. While both protagonists do not face legal punishment for their affairs, they do confront personal consequences. The petite provincialeâ s dreams about celebrities burst and Madame de Grangerieâ s reputation appears at risk. Maupassant not only comments on feminine curiosity and adultery, but also on the internal effects such actions could potentially have on women of his time. In this thesis I argue that even though both protagonists act on their curiosities and flirt with private/public boundaries, the petite provinciale and Madame de Grangerie are ultimately presented through masculinized lenses. I also show how discursive nineteenth-century traditions of a limited view of female sexuality are reconstructed in Maupassantâ s tales.
Advisors/Committee Members: Watson, R. Janell (committeechair), Farquhar, Sue (committee member), Ewing, E. Thomas (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: adultery; masculine authority; feminine curiosity; private/public space; nineteenth-century ideology
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Barden, A. R. (2006). Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'. (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31971
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Barden, Abbey R. “Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'.” 2006. Masters Thesis, Virginia Tech. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31971.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Barden, Abbey R. “Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'.” 2006. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Barden AR. Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2006. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31971.
Council of Science Editors:
Barden AR. Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'. [Masters Thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2006. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31971
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Wilson, Brandy Michelle.
A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva.
Degree: MA, English, 2008, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42107
► In utilizing Kristeva's psychoanalytic discursive theory of identity-formation within literary symbolic structures, my thesis seeks to follow the ontological processes involved in identity and signification…
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▼ In utilizing Kristeva's psychoanalytic discursive theory of identity-formation within literary symbolic structures, my thesis seeks to follow the ontological processes involved in identity and signification in “subversive” signifying practices. Specifically, I'm interested in the ways modern poetry (such as Elizabeth Bishop) defies traditional patriarchal discourse as dominant literary devices while embracing plurality and inherent virtues of the female voice. My project will trace Kristeva's semiotic/psychoanalytic evolution from linguistic models of the signifying process, to particulars of her psychoanalytic/linguistic theories, and finally, will attempt to construct a space within modern poetry, where it can be said, the subject (poet) remains on trial/in crisis, and poetic expression reveals the “jouissance” or unspoken voice of repression.
Bishop's poetry constantly questions reality, knowledge, sexuality and the self. I strive to expose how Bishop's poetry performs Kristeva's theory of the self in writing; her poetry puts at the core of the self a sense of loss in her attempts to express herself in language. I offer close readings of “The Fish,” “Questions of Travel,” and “One Art,” to show how Bishop's self exposes the unconscious process of poetic activity. Kelly Oliver articulates Kristeva's contributions to linguistics and psychoanalysis quite succinctly, “When we learn to embrace the return of the repressed/the foreigner within ourselves, then we learn to live with, and love, others” (14).
Advisors/Committee Members: Siegle, Robert B. (committeechair), Watson, R. Janell (committee member), Powell, Katrina M. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: the subject; semiotic; symbolic; signifying process; Julia Kristeva
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Wilson, B. M. (2008). A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva. (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42107
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wilson, Brandy Michelle. “A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva.” 2008. Masters Thesis, Virginia Tech. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42107.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wilson, Brandy Michelle. “A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva.” 2008. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Wilson BM. A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2008. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42107.
Council of Science Editors:
Wilson BM. A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva. [Masters Thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2008. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42107
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Baek, Jiewon.
La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot.
Degree: MA, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, 2010, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31850
► Au cours du vingtième siècle, la représentation du rapport entre le temps, le récit, et la mémoire dans la littérature française subit un changement. A…
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▼ Au cours du vingtième siècle, la représentation du rapport entre le temps, le récit, et la mémoire dans la littérature française subit un changement. A la recherche du temps perdu de Proust atteste dâ une mémoire puissante qui synthétise des moments séparés dans une Å uvre dâ art, et matérialise la thèse de Paul RicÅ ur au sujet de lâ interdépendance du temps et du récit. Cette synthèse proustienne devient presque impossible chez Samuel Beckett, Georges Perec, et Maurice Blanchot, qui affrontent la disparition de la mémoire préservée dans lâ espace narrative. La traduction de la mémoire temporalisée dans une histoire cohérente ne peut pas continuer non seulement face à la spatialisation de la mémoire dans lâ accroissement des développements des médias de masse que Walter Benjamin critique, mais aussi face à la détérioration de lâ espace.
De lâ immense édifice de la mémoire chez Proust, à lâ invention de Beckett, à la préservation spatiale du temps disparu chez Perec, et au désÅ uvrement de Blanchot, les Å uvres de ces auteurs franchissent la vaste étendue entre la mémoire et lâ oubli dans la littérature. La présente analyse intègre des auteurs qui se divergent au côté de la mémoire et au côté de lâ oubli. Cette intégration établit des passages qui rendent possible lâ échange entre ces deux côtés. La communication continue dans lâ écart où la mémoire et lâ oubli se reflètent.
English translation:
In the course of the twentieth century, the representation of the relationship between time,
narrative, and memory in French literature undergoes a change. Proustâ s A la recherche du temps perdu evidences the power of memory to synthesize separate moments through a work of art and embodies the thesis of Paul Ricoeur on the interdependency of time and narrative. This proustian synthesis becomes almost impossible for Samuel Beckett, George Perec, and Maurice Blanchot, who encounter the disappearance of memory preserved in the narrative space. Not only in the face of the spatialization of memory in the increasing development of mass media, which Walter
Benjamin criticizes, but also in the face of the deterioration of space, the translation of a
temporalized memory into a coherent story cannot continue.
From Proustâ s immense edifice of memory, to Beckettâ s invention, to Perecâ s spatial
preservation of vanished time, to Blanchotâ s désoeuvrement, the works of these authors traverse
the wide span between memory and forgetting in literature. This paper integrates these authors
who diverge in the direction of memory, on the one hand, and in the direction of forgetting, on
the other. This integration forms passageways that make possible the exchange between these
two ends. Communication continues in the gap where memory and forgetting are reflections of
each other.
Advisors/Committee Members: Abiragi, Anthony A. (committeechair), Watson, R. Janell (committee member), Shryock, Richard L. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: le récit; lâ espace; le temps; lâ oubli; la mémoire
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Baek, J. (2010). La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot. (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31850
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Baek, Jiewon. “La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot.” 2010. Masters Thesis, Virginia Tech. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31850.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Baek, Jiewon. “La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot.” 2010. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Baek J. La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31850.
Council of Science Editors:
Baek J. La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot. [Masters Thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31850
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Canard, Robert Leigh.
Patriotic Attachment, Libidinal Economy, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Qualified Defense of Patriotic Love.
Degree: MA, Political Science, 2009, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32155
► Terms such as â fascistâ and â naziâ retain light and even comical currency in contemporary pop culture despite the gravity of the events that…
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▼ Terms such as â fascistâ and â naziâ retain light and even comical currency in contemporary pop culture despite the gravity of the events that produced them. Departing from this common usage, I consider within political and psychoanalytic frameworks the normative effects common understandings of fascism and totalitarianism exercise vis-a-vis collective attachments (patriotism, nationalism), and specifically how this discourse shapes notions of citizenship. Working within this political-psychoanalytic model, I analyze the substance behind Barack Obamaâ s Presidential campaign themes of hope and change by way of his Inaugural Address in relation to that of George W. Bush. I conclude by engaging the discourse on cosmopolitan citizenship, considering both how it fits into the framework developed for this project and the relation of Obamaâ s understandings of citizenship and foreign policy to cosmpolitanism.
Advisors/Committee Members: Luke, Timothy W. (committeechair), Thadhani, Rupa G. (committee member), Watson, R. Janell (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Nationalism; Citizenship; Political Theory; Governance; Psychoanalytic Theory; Cosmopolitanism
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Canard, R. L. (2009). Patriotic Attachment, Libidinal Economy, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Qualified Defense of Patriotic Love. (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32155
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Canard, Robert Leigh. “Patriotic Attachment, Libidinal Economy, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Qualified Defense of Patriotic Love.” 2009. Masters Thesis, Virginia Tech. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32155.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Canard, Robert Leigh. “Patriotic Attachment, Libidinal Economy, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Qualified Defense of Patriotic Love.” 2009. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Canard RL. Patriotic Attachment, Libidinal Economy, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Qualified Defense of Patriotic Love. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32155.
Council of Science Editors:
Canard RL. Patriotic Attachment, Libidinal Economy, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Qualified Defense of Patriotic Love. [Masters Thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32155
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Nash, Matthew Austin.
Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek.
Degree: MA, Political Science, 2009, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46073
► According to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, our postmodern era and its correlate political problematic requires a shift in positing socialist strategy. Their wager is…
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▼ According to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, our postmodern era and its correlate political problematic requires a shift in positing socialist strategy. Their wager is that by shifting away from essentialist Marxism, and towards a post-Marxist theory of hegemony which they adapt from Gramsci, the analytic for overturning contemporary hegemony will take the form of a radical democratic politics. My contention is that in shifting away from essentialist Marxism through their post-structuralist deconstructive stance, Laclau and Mouffe overstep and make their analytic for socialist strategy impotent. In order to show where Laclau and Mouffe have gone wrong I use primarily the work of Michel Foucault and Slavoj Žižek in order to demonstrate how a post-structuralist theory of ideology need not be a post-Marxist theory of ideology.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lavin, Chad D. (committeechair), Luke, Timothy W. (committee member), Watson, R. Janell (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Slavoj Žižek; Michel Foucault; Ernesto Laclau; hegemony; ideology; post-Marxism
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Nash, M. A. (2009). Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek. (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46073
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Nash, Matthew Austin. “Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek.” 2009. Masters Thesis, Virginia Tech. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46073.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Nash, Matthew Austin. “Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek.” 2009. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Nash MA. Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46073.
Council of Science Editors:
Nash MA. Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek. [Masters Thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46073
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Green, Henry Burke.
The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics.
Degree: MA, History, 2006, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33799
► In this thesis, I study the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) depiction of West African forests in its Forestry Outlook Study…
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▼ In this thesis, I study the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) depiction of West African forests in its Forestry Outlook Study for Africa: Subregional Report, West Africa, which attempts to describe all of West Africa's forests simultaneously. The FAO is a large international development agency that produces agricultural and environmental information for individual states and other international agencies, such as the World Bank. The FAO's forestry studies pander to Western fears of environmental degradation, assumptions of African backwardness, and the assumed "rational" behavior of private investors in a free market by depicting West African forests as rapidly, uniformly, and irreparably degrading due to "irrational" resource management. The FAO presents privatization as a natural goal of international development, and requisite for "rational" land use. Unless private investors are given control of forests, the FAO implies, "irrational" deforestation will destroy West African forests. The FAO has thus incorporated Western fears about the environment into their neoliberal economic agenda.
Academics have challenged the FAO's description of West African forests and have found that, in many cases, the FAO's attempts to provide generalizations and recommendations over large regions do not adequately reflect the economic and geographical diversity of the region. Current academic literature challenges the representation of West Africa, and the environmental discourse of international development. I find that even critics of environmental discourse do not adequately challenge the underlying neoliberal assumptions that motivate the FAO. I propose that critics must further distance themselves from the assumptions inherent to international development by incorporating economic philosophy into their critique.
Advisors/Committee Members: Watson, R. Janell (committeechair), Gueye, Medoune (committee member), Grossman, Lawrence S. (committee member), Barrow, Mark V. Jr. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: discourse analysis; West Africa; environmental discourse; deforestation
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Green, H. B. (2006). The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics. (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33799
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Green, Henry Burke. “The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics.” 2006. Masters Thesis, Virginia Tech. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33799.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Green, Henry Burke. “The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics.” 2006. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Green HB. The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2006. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33799.
Council of Science Editors:
Green HB. The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics. [Masters Thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2006. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33799
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Kiersey, Nicholas Jeremiah.
Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?.
Degree: PhD, Planning, Governance, and Globalization, 2007, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26534
► This dissertation explores how different understandings of power in IR theory lead to different understandings of world order. In particular, I examine how notions of…
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▼ This dissertation explores how different understandings of power in IR theory lead to different understandings of world order. In particular, I examine how notions of power have informed recent 'debate about empireâ and what the term empire might usefully mean in the context of contemporary international relations. I start by investigating how power is understood in relation to the role of shared understandings. Mainstream or â Rationalistâ scholars of IR have argued that shared norms and principles are epiphenomenal, existing only to the extent that sovereign states find utility in them. 'Reflectivist' scholars, on the other hand, have suggested that we attribute a much greater degree of autonomy to what they call â constitutive knowledgeâ . That is, the intersubjective and historically contingent truths about world politics that inform the values and norms of state behavior. What is noteworthy about the recent debates about â empireâ is that, for better or for worse, Rationalist scholars have tended to explain Americaâ s recent unilateralism in terms of a return to the logic of political realism which gives primacy to state power. However, following the Reflectivist argument, I argue that it is a mistake to limit the analytic scope of unilateralism to the egoistic agency of any one state. Instead, it may be more precise to situate American unilateralism in the context of an emerging regime or formation of shared understandings which is more global in scope. To explore this possibility, I turn to Foucaultâ s theory of power which explores how liberal governments both direct their populations and rationalize the use of certain forms of violence. I turn also to Hardt and Negri who, taking their lead from Foucault, offer a novel definition of the term empire as a quality or condition of the practice of global governance particular to late modernity. Hardt and Negri define empire as a new form of global sovereignty that has emerged along with the global market and global circuits of production. My research explores how this definition can be used to refine such key concepts and categories of IR theory research as sovereignty, political economy and security. Through the reinterpretation of these key categories, I show how theories based on constitutive knowledge are capable of recognizing that there is in fact a great deal more going on in contemporary global power relations than American unilateralism.
Advisors/Committee Members: Luke, Timothy W. (committeechair), Toal, Gerard (committee member), Watson, R. Janell (committee member), Nelson, Scott C. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: war; ethics; international relations theory; imperialism; empire; globalization; governmentality; unilateralism; world order; legitimacy; war on terror; disciplinarity; biopower; biopolitics
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Kiersey, N. J. (2007). Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?. (Doctoral Dissertation). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26534
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kiersey, Nicholas Jeremiah. “Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?.” 2007. Doctoral Dissertation, Virginia Tech. Accessed April 20, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26534.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kiersey, Nicholas Jeremiah. “Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?.” 2007. Web. 20 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kiersey NJ. Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Virginia Tech; 2007. [cited 2021 Apr 20].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26534.
Council of Science Editors:
Kiersey NJ. Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Virginia Tech; 2007. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26534
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