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UNISA996683777703316 |
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Autore |
Noyes Dorothy |
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Exemplarity in Global Politics |
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Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2025 |
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©2025 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Bristol Studies in International Theory Series |
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Monografia |
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Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Exemplarity in Global Politics -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Theorizing Exemplarity for Global Politics -- From concept bundle to mechanism -- A mode of cultural transmission -- Why exemplarity matters for international theory: relationality, change, and agency -- Getting a grip on exemplarity -- Individuals and inspiration -- The complexities of uptake -- Exemplary orders -- Trajectories -- Thinking with examples -- References -- 2 From Performance to Uptake: A Process Model of Exemplarity -- Exemplarity as process: a dynamic model -- Performance -- Amplification -- Judgment -- Citation -- Emulation -- The power of examples -- So what to make of exemplarity? -- References -- Part II Individuals and Inspiration -- 3 Gandhi's Exemplarity -- Non-violence -- Gandhi as national and trans-national -- Inter-faith dialogue -- Reconciliation -- Humility -- 4 Tyrannicides, Tyrants, and Emperors: Exemplarity in the Graeco-Roman World -- Introduction -- The Athenian tyrannicides -- Postlude in Rome -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Child Greta: The Exemplar as Embodied Future -- The example as model and sample -- Methodological approach -- The grand narrative of a climate-changed future -- Climate change, family time, and the child -- Life-scripted future -- The child talks back -- The prophetic tone -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III The Complexities of Uptake -- 6 The Truths of Suffering and Injustice: Confucian Exemplarity in the History of |
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Exemplar-Prisoners -- Reflexive emulation through historiography -- Mediated emulation through art -- From reflexive emulation to veneration -- Extraordinary suffering and its audiences -- Death and exemplarity -- Reflections during the pandemic -- References. |
7 The Exemplary Normativity of International Precedents -- Introduction -- Rationalist accounts of precedent -- Constructivist accounts of precedent -- The exemplary normativity of precedents -- The use of force and the Kosovo precedent -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Exemplarity in Global Resistance: Beyond Epics and Romanticism -- Revolutionary exemplarity: Haiti and the Age of Revolutions -- Exemplarity in transnational social movements: feminist legacies -- Understanding (exemplary) trajectories of resistance -- References -- Part IV Exemplary Orders -- 9 Exemplarity and Hierarchy -- Introduction -- Anarchy, hierarchy and exemplarity in IR -- Social hierarchies in the modern (liberal) international order -- Exemplarity as a stigma coping strategy -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 The Violence of the Exemplar: The French Civilizing Mission in French and Algerian Memories, 1918-Present -- Negotiating and denying early examples of the civilizing mission -- The lingering trauma of exemplarity in the postcolonial Algerian -- An unquestionable exemplarity -- References -- 11 Prototyping Events: Creating Child-Oriented Methods of Disaster Preparedness -- Design thinking in international cooperation -- Two events across the Pacific Ocean -- Prototyping events -- Enrollment to the event -- The relational child -- Opening relations as preparedness -- References -- Part V Trajectories -- 12 The Soft Power of a Small Country: Self-Perceptions of the Netherlands as a Model for Europe and the World -- Exemplarity in EUrope -- Netherlands as guide country -- Connection with progressive politics -- Showing a superior progressive moral stance -- Product of post-war politics, or the progressive incarnation of a long-term practice? -- Europe as a lever -- Conclusion -- References. |
13 Exemplary Appropriation: Holocaust Remembrance Practices in Post-Communist Europe -- The Holocaust in European contested historical memory -- Exemplary Holocaust appropriation as competitive victimization -- Exemplary Holocaust appropriation as criminalization of communism -- Exemplary Holocaust appropriation as myth of European unity -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 From Exemplarity to Farce? The Career of Cold War Threshold Crossings -- Examples of d é tente -- Envisioning the exemplary network -- Spectacle and suspicion -- A true believer -- After liberal exemplarity -- References -- Part VI Thinking with Examples -- 15 Salient Examples in Flawed Reasoning about International Politics -- Exemplarity as an empirical strategy -- Why examples are poor guides to understanding and action -- Potentially positive uses of examples -- Exemplarity as a normative strategy -- References -- 16 The Disciplinary Exemplarity of the Concert of Europe -- IR's Concert of Europe and History's Congress of Vienna -- Exemplarity and uptake -- Concert as exemplar -- Conclusion -- References -- 17 Conclusion: The Fragility and Persistence of Examples -- Beyond the exemplary center -- The future of exemplarity -- References -- Index. |
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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. |
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