Commonsense Constructivism, Or, The Making of World AffairsM.E. Sharpe, 2000 - 248 pages This engaging book presents an intriguing new approach to understanding world affairs. "Constructivism" first found its way to IR -- the field of international relations -- in an exceptionally demanding form. This book is quite the opposite. In a highly readable and witty way, Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs, makes clear how everything around us (IR included) is constructed. In the process, it also shows how narrow the standard IR approaches are, and how much we miss as a consequence. Ralph Pettman's conceptual framework of state-making, wealth-making, self-making, and mind-making allows us to see such notions as "globalization" in a revealing new light. This work is intended to be fully accessible to students, but it will be welcomed by anyone who has been mystified by constructivism -- or who simply wants to better understand the ways we understand our world. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Commonsense Constructivism 1. Making World Affairs I. THE NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE 2. Making Modernity 3. Making Sovereign Selves, Social Collectives, and Nations II. THE DOMINANT ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE 4. Making States and Making Markets CONCLUSION: A Constructed World |
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... Modernity 71 Chapter 3. Making Sovereign Selves , Social Collectives , and Nations 110 PART II . THE DOMINANT ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE 149 Chapter 4. Making States and Making Markets 151 Conclusion . A Constructed World 210 References ...
... modernity ( a style of research that arose in the mid - seventeenth century that exalts rationality , or the use of reason as an end in itself ) . As indicated above , postwar American IR / IPE was built largely along modernist lines ...
... modernity . They may even be postmodernists , particularly if they construe " truth " as predominantly a question of power and a function of " discourse and discipline . " The reference point for social theory constructivism remains ...
... modernity's peripheries . The modernist project involves gendering practices , for example , and ethno - centering practices , and eco- logically damaging practices , and spiritually alienating practices , and all these make margins to ...
... modernity in terms of the attempt to make a global culture that places its highest priority upon the use of reason ( and that creates in the process premodernist and postmodernist alterna- tives , whose proponents do not privilege the ...
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THE NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE | 69 |
Making Modernity | 71 |
Making Sovereign Selves Social Collectives and Nations | 110 |
THE DOMINANT ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE | 149 |
Making States and Making Markets | 151 |
A Constructed World | 210 |
References | 231 |
Index | 241 |