Reflections on the posthuman in international relations : the anthropocene, security and ecology /

Reflections on the posthuman in international relations : the anthropocene, security and ecology / edited by Clara Eroukhmanoff & Matt Harker - Bristol : E-international Relations, 2017 - ix, 130 pages, 23 cm

SIP1904

Includes bibliographical references.

PART ONE -- HUMAN, THE POSTHUMAN, POSTHUMANISM -- 'Posthuman security': reflections from an open-ended conversation -- Between radical posthumanism and weak anthropocentrism: the spectrum of critical humanism(s) -- Hybridity and humility: what of the human in posthuman security? -- Anthropocentrism and the politics of the living -- Performing the posthuman: an essay in three acts -- PART TWO -- ECOLOGY, NONHUMAN SPECIES AND THE ANTHROPOCENE -- Ecological security
 -- Posthuman security and care in the anthropocene -- Global security in a posthuman age? IR and the anthropocene challenge 
 -- The 'nature' of international relations: from geopolitics to the anthropocene
 -- Metternich, the gut-brain axis, and the turing cops: the subjects of posthuman IR.

This book exposes a much needed discussion on the interconnectedness between objects, organisms, machines and elemental forces. It seeks to disturb dogmatic ontologies that privilege human life and successfully questions the separation between the natural and human worlds. By doing so, the collection confronts, challenges, and energises discussion beyond International Relations' traditional territorial lines. By revealing the fragility of mainstream narratives of the 'human,' each author in this collection contributes to an unsettling vision of a posthuman world. Questions of what the future beyond the Anthropocene looks like pervasively infiltrate the collection and move away from a system that all too often relies on binary relationships. In contrast to this binary view of the world, the book (re)entagles the innate complexities found within the world and brings forward a plurality of views on posthumanism.

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social sciences
ethics--technology
anthropology
international relations--theory

humanistic ethics philosophical anthropology