Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics

This book explores writing, methods, violence, and un/becomings in global politics through a collective mediation of narratives, fictional stories, academic discussions, and more. It aims to offer a theoretically creative work that engages extensively with the visual and affective to un-discipline knowledge and modes of expression, departing from conventional academic conferences and opening up to broader concerns about everyday-level decisions, realities, and perspectives that shape global politics. It is a polyvocal text that collects traces of thinking, learning, conversing, embodying, and 'finding out' to make visible discarded knowing practices and demands a better understanding of the worlds we inhabit to make them quiver otherwise.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

This captivating book delves into a profound exploration of writing, methods, violence, and un/becoming in global politics. It weaves together a rich tapestry of narratives, fictional stories, academic discussions, passionate unwindings, imagined futures, and much more. The editor's vision is to create a theoretically innovative work that deeply engages with the visual and affective, challenging knowledge and modes of expression. At its core, the book departs from a conventional academic conference, addressing the unique academic concerns that many readers will already be familiar with. However, it goes beyond these confines to delve into broader and deeper concerns about everyday-level decisions, realities, and perspectives that shape and influence global politics. This is a polyvocal text that gathers traces of thinking, learning, conversing, embodying, and 'finding out,' aiming to make visible some of the avalanches of discarded knowing practices. In essence, this book serves as both a political/theoretical text that demands a deeper understanding or knowledge of the worlds we inhabit in order to provoke a different kind of quivering. It encourages readers to explore new ways of thinking and being in the world, challenging the status quo and opening up new possibilities for understanding and transformation.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538171370