International relations and the challenges of global communication

Review of International Studies

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 5-19

  Constantinou, Costas M ^a   Richmond, Oliver P ^a   Watson, Alison M S ^a  

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EID: 43149090988     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: 14699044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026021050800778X     Document Type: Editorial

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2. Ken Booth, 'Security and Self', in Keith Krause and Michael Williams, Critical Security Studies (London: UCL Press, 1997), p. 110.
3. For a range of different ways, some of which remain marginal and unappreciated, see Ruth Finnegan, Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human interconnection (London: Routledge, 2002).
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5. See Christine Sylvester, 'Art, Abstraction, and IR', Millennium, 30:3 (2001), p. 540:
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8. See also Sandra Harding, Is Science Multicultural? (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998).
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11. Among these rare exceptions, for example, is the work of Michael J. Shapiro which has been very unsettling to the discipline and has been seen as 'post-disciplinary', a positive term for some but also a means of dismissing its relevance to IR for others. See, among his works, The Politics of Representation: Writing Practices of Biography, Photography and Policy Analysis (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988);
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28. and Philip Darby, At the Edge of IR (Cambridge: Continuum, 2000).
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34. Ibid., p. 34.
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50. Jacques Ranciere, The Politics of Aesthetics (London: Continuum, 2004),
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