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Imagining world politics : Sihar & Shenya, a fable for our times /L H M Ling

By: L H M LingContributor(s): L H M LingMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Raghav Books Private Limited | ;A-184 A, Nand Gram ,Ghaziabad.U.P.Publication details: New York :Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2014Description: xl, 204 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9780415718868Subject(s): World politicsGenre/Form: Feminism--Political aspectsDDC classification: 327 LIN

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Fable of Sihar & Shenya -- Book I The Orchid and the Tree -- Sihar, the King -- Thirty Years Back -- Shenya, the Priestess -- Royal Decree -- The Farmers -- The Young People -- Dreams and Other Tales -- The Abbess -- At Court -- The Plot -- In Captivity -- Talking Fishes -- Shenya's Retreat -- Norom's Demand -- Shenya's Counsels -- The Secret -- The Recovery -- Back at Court -- Urma's Ambition -- Plots Upon Plots -- On the Trail -- Revival -- The Rescue -- The News -- En Route -- A Late-Night Visit -- Sihar's Dream -- The Request -- The King's Return -- The Banquet -- A Glittering Affair -- The Temple of Knowledge -- Karma's Path -- Freedom -- Book II The Laughing Monk's Bet -- Thirty Years On -- The Five Mythic Ones -- The Human World -- The Bet -- The Proposal -- The Invitation -- The Reply -- The Arrival -- In Preparation -- The Welcome -- Stratagems -- Another Invitation -- An Evening of Word-Songs -- Next Morn -- The Excursion Note continued: Drat'n's Accounting -- Negotiations -- Message and Messenger -- Discoveries -- The Announcement -- Aftermath -- A Bowl of Soup -- Three Moons On -- Mythic Recalibrations -- Epilogue/Introduction: The Return -- Boston Sky -- Wanda, the Student -- The Class -- Thomas Hobbes -- Another Kind of Question -- Pushmataha's Speech -- Miller's Response -- The Library -- A Dog-eared Paperback.

Summary: This book offers a non-Western feminist perspective on world politics and international relations. Creative, innovative, and challenging, it seeks completely to transform contemporary Eurocentric and masculinist IR by re-presenting it in non-Western, non-masculinist, and non-academic terms. Drawing on Daoist dialectics, the stories of Sihar and Shenya aim to redress such hegemonic imbalance by completing the IR story. To the yang of power politics, this book offers a yin of fairy-tale. (Both are equally fantastical but to different purposes.) To the yang of binary categories like Self vs Other, West vs Rest, hypermasculinity vs hyperfemininity, Sihar and Shenya show their yin complementarities and complicities, inside and out, top and bottom, center and periphery. And to the yang of intransigent hegemony, Sihar & Shenya explores the yin of emancipation through porous, water-like thought and behavior through venues like aesthetics and emotions. From this basis, we begin to see another world with another kind of politics.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Machine generated contents note: The Fable of Sihar & Shenya --
Book I The Orchid and the Tree --
Sihar, the King --
Thirty Years Back --
Shenya, the Priestess --
Royal Decree --
The Farmers --
The Young People --
Dreams and Other Tales --
The Abbess --
At Court --
The Plot --
In Captivity --
Talking Fishes --
Shenya's Retreat --
Norom's Demand --
Shenya's Counsels --
The Secret --
The Recovery --
Back at Court --
Urma's Ambition --
Plots Upon Plots --
On the Trail --
Revival --
The Rescue --
The News --
En Route --
A Late-Night Visit --
Sihar's Dream --
The Request --
The King's Return --
The Banquet --
A Glittering Affair --
The Temple of Knowledge --
Karma's Path --
Freedom --
Book II The Laughing Monk's Bet --
Thirty Years On --
The Five Mythic Ones --
The Human World --
The Bet --
The Proposal --
The Invitation --
The Reply --
The Arrival --
In Preparation --
The Welcome --
Stratagems --
Another Invitation --
An Evening of Word-Songs --
Next Morn --
The Excursion Note continued: Drat'n's Accounting --
Negotiations --
Message and Messenger --
Discoveries --
The Announcement --
Aftermath --
A Bowl of Soup --
Three Moons On --
Mythic Recalibrations --
Epilogue/Introduction: The Return --
Boston Sky --
Wanda, the Student --
The Class --
Thomas Hobbes --
Another Kind of Question --
Pushmataha's Speech --
Miller's Response --
The Library --
A Dog-eared Paperback.

This book offers a non-Western feminist perspective on world politics and international relations. Creative, innovative, and challenging, it seeks completely to transform contemporary Eurocentric and masculinist IR by re-presenting it in non-Western, non-masculinist, and non-academic terms. Drawing on Daoist dialectics, the stories of Sihar and Shenya aim to redress such hegemonic imbalance by completing the IR story. To the yang of power politics, this book offers a yin of fairy-tale. (Both are equally fantastical but to different purposes.) To the yang of binary categories like Self vs Other, West vs Rest, hypermasculinity vs hyperfemininity, Sihar and Shenya show their yin complementarities and complicities, inside and out, top and bottom, center and periphery. And to the yang of intransigent hegemony, Sihar & Shenya explores the yin of emancipation through porous, water-like thought and behavior through venues like aesthetics and emotions. From this basis, we begin to see another world with another kind of politics.

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