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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554239703321

Autore

Caivano Dean <p>Dean Caivano, York University, Kanada </p>

Titolo

The Sublime of the Political : Narrative and Autoethnography as Theory / Dean Caivano, Sarah Naumes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

9783839447727

3839447720

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages)

Collana

Edition Politik

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Radical Democracy

Aesthetic Theory

Narrative

Autoethnography

Methodology

Politics

Political Theory

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Table of Contents    5 Acknowledgements    7 Introduction    9 Chapter 1: Narrative and Autoethnography and its Emergence Within International Relations Scholarship    21 Chapter 2: Rethinking Political Theory: Storytelling, The Political, and Pedagogy    41 Chapter 3: A Genealogy of the Sublime    63 Chapter 4: The Sublime Aesthetic of Narrative & Autoethnography    93 Chapter 5: Vignettes of the Banal    127 Postscript I Revisiting Vignettes of the Banal    145 Bibliography    149

Sommario/riassunto

In an age of immediate and global exchange of information, the ability to theorize about political conditions remains largely an elite, technocratic, and esoteric enterprise. In this timely intervention, Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes argue that storytelling in the form of narrative and autoethnography creates an emancipatory potential through its ability to theorize from below, welcoming marginalized and



excluded voices. Drawing from the disciplines of political studies, philosophy and literary studies, this volume offers a new assessment of political texts through the lens of the sublime as a fertile terrain to challenge who can write and disseminate political ideas – and how.