Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Dorothy Noyes is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University.
Tobias Wille is Assistant Professor of International Security in the Department of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies.
‘We live in a world full of exemplars, but far from an exemplary world, a contradiction that fuels these subtle and richly satisfying analyses of how aspirational models of people and forms might circulate. This nuanced bouquet of chapters brings together interdisciplinary approaches that reveal the types of social coordination that must exist for exemplars to emerge, circulate, and in turn structure future possibilities that people thus learn to find worthwhile. This collection is a vital starting point for all who want to understand a world built to enable exemplars to spark social change.’ Ilana Gershon, Rice University
‘This conceptually compelling and empirically scrumptious collection edited by Noyes and Wille unpicks the modalities and uptakes of exemplarity in world politics with rare anthropological sensibility. For a finely imaginative example of empirical theorising, defying disciplinary boundaries and engaging a range of perspectives, look no further. A treat.’ Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen
‘How do exemplary acts become themselves? This impressive, wide-ranging volume interrogates the intricate interplay of political claims, performance events and recognition. The chapters offer the reader refreshing and important transdisciplinary insights into the global politics of exemplarity.’ Srdjan Vucetic, University of Ottawa
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.
How is political change claimed and recognized? How is it attached to actors and transferred between them? This volume gives a new account of a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but trickier in practice: the performance and uptake of examples.
Bringing together thinkers from different disciplines and places, this book considers the networks of reception and emulation within which a political act can become an example, circulating beyond the bounds of identities, norms, and ideologies. Tracing short- and long-term interactions among aspirational, dissident, and establishment performances, the volume reveals exemplarity to be a shaping force in global politics.
Part I. Introduction
1. Theorizing Exemplarity for Global Politics ~ Dorothy Noyes and Tobias Wille
2. From Performance to Uptake: A Process Model of Exemplarity ~ Dorothy Noyes and Tobias Wille
Part II. Individuals and Inspiration
3. Gandhi’s Exemplarity ~ Ramachandra Guha
4. Tyrannicides, Tyrants, and Emperors: Exemplarity in the Graeco-Roman World ~ Fritz Graf
5. The Child Greta: The Exemplar as Embodied Future ~ Kyrre Kverndokk
Part III. The Complexities of Uptake
6. The Truths of Suffering and Injustice: Confucian Exemplarity in the History of Exemplar-Prisoners ~ Ying Zhang
7. The Exemplary Normativity of International Precedents ~ Christopher Daase and Tobias Wille
8. Exemplarity in Global Resistance: Beyond Epics and Romanticism ~ Iratxe Perea Ozerin
Part IV. Exemplary Orders
9. Exemplarity and Hierarchy ~ Ayşe Zarakol
10. The Violence of the Exemplar: The French Civilizing Mission in French and Algerian Memories, 1918-Present ~ Guillaume Wadia
11. Prototyping Events: Creating Child-Oriented Methods of Disaster Preparedness ~ Chika Watanabe
Part V. Trajectories
12. The Soft Power of a Small Country. Self-Perceptions of the Netherlands as a Model for Europe and the World ~ Robin de Bruin
13. Exemplary Appropriation: Holocaust Remembrance Practices in Post-Communist Europe ~ Jelena Subotić
14. From Exemplarity to Farce? The Career of Cold War Threshold Crossings ~ Dorothy Noyes
Part VI. Thinking with Examples
15. Salient Examples in Flawed Reasoning about International Politics ~ Jack Snyder
16. The Disciplinary Exemplarity of the Concert of Europe ~ Jennifer Mitzen
17. Conclusion: The Fragility and Persistence of Examples ~ Tobias Wille and Dorothy Noyes
• Includes chapters from experts across Europe and North America;
• Examines how political change is claimed and recognized through the power of example, focusing on performance, reception and uptake.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Dorothy Noyes is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University.
Tobias Wille is Assistant Professor of International Security in the Department of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies.