Ithaca College

Naeem Inayatullah co-edited (with Elizabeth Dauphinee, York University), Narrative Global Politics.  

 This volume harnesses the sudden emergence of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics. It comprises a prologue, an epilogue (by Cory Brown, Writing), and fifteen chapters that both build upon and diversify the success of the 2011 volume Autobiographical International Relations.

Here, as in that volume, academics place their narratives in the context of world politics, culture, and history. Contributors explore moments in their academic lives that are often inexpressible in the standard academic voice and which, in turn, require a different way of writing and knowing. They write in the belief that academic International Relations has already begun to benefit from a different kind of writing―a style that retrieves the "I" and explicitly demonstrates its presence both within the world and within academic writing. By working within the overlap between theory, history, and autobiography, these chapters aim to increase the clarity, urgency, and meaningfulness of academic work.  Highlighting the autoethnographic and autobiographic turn in critical international relations, this work will be of interest to students and scholars in international relations, IR theory and global politics.

A copy of the prologue by Inayatullah and Dauphinee can be found here: https://www.academia.edu/27313286/Permitted_Urgency_A_Prologue_December_15.docx 

A copy of Cory Brown’s precise and evocative epilogue can be found here: https://faculty.ithaca.edu/cbrown/docs/sampleprose/dancing_modernity/