Thinking World Politics Otherwise
A Diverse Introduction to International Relations
Rhys Crilley, Nivi Manchanda, Laura J. Shepherd, Cai Wilkinson, Caitlin Biddolph, Stefanie Fishel
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- ISBN:
- 9780192897701
- Published:
- 3 Jul 2025
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Thinking World Politics Otherwise is a different kind of textbook. It includes a variety of critical approaches and perspectives that seek to challenge and rethink orthodox understandings of International Relations.
Moving away from traditional approaches based on theoretical and historical schools of thought, Thinking World Politics Otherwise brings together prominent voices in the field that recognize the importance of
engaging with global politics from a range of perspectives and through a variety of cutting-edge approaches. It provides students with the opportunity to become familiar with a wide spectrum of approaches, issues, and cases
that have been historically marginalized in the discipline.
Key Features
· Includes a variety of approaches that have been historically marginalized in the discipline.
· Each section editor, as an expert in the approach represented in their section, provides an introduction to the section to give readers an overview of the approach.
· Diverse topics and chapters, ranging from understanding how the everyday
shapes our view of the world to a planetary examination of international mobility, provides students with a wide range of learning opportunities.
· Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links
that offer extra learning support.
Digital formats and resources
Thinking World Politics Otherwise is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats and is supported by online resources.
The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-test multiple choice questions, functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support:
www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
The digital version, available on Politics Trove, is also accompanied by online resources.
These
include:
For lecturers:
- PowerPoint slides with a deck for each chapter to help build lecture materials
1: Jonneke Koomen and Salome Ayuak: Learning about World Politics: The What and the How
Knowing World Politics
Rhys Crilley: Introduction
2: Joanna Tidy: The everyday
3: Dean Cooper-Cunningham: Discourse
4: Precious N. Chatterje-Doody: Narrative
5: Lisa Bogerts and David Shim: Visuality
6: Kristin Anabel Eggeling: Practice
7: Naomi Head, Clara Eroukhmanoff, and Amanda Beattie: Emotions
Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches
Nivi Manchanda: Introduction
8: Musab Younis: International History
9: Lisa Tilley: Race/economy
10: James Eastwood and Sharri Plonski: Settler colonialism
11: Kerem Nisancioglu: Connection/Relation
12: Sara Salem: The international
Feminist Approaches
Laura J. Shepherd: Introduction
13: V. Spike Peterson: Privilege
14: Shweta Singh: Security and Militarism
15: Perdita Sonntag, Karinda Flavell, and Samanthi Gunawardana: Global Political Economy
16: Cecilia Åse: The State
17: Alba Boer Cueva, Lenka Olejnikova and Laura J. Shepherd: Gender
Queer Approaches
Caitlin Biddolph and Cai Wilkinson: Introduction
18: Catherine Charrett and Mohamed Abdou: Religion
19: Amanda Álvares Ferreira: The body politic
20: Caitlin Biddolph: International Law and Justice
21: Ryan Thoreson: Human Rights
22: Julia Richardson and Cai Wilkinson: Security
Planetary Approaches
Stefanie Fishel: Introduction
23: Joana Castro Pereira: Ecology
24: Benjamin Meiches: Violence
25: Anthony Burke: Ecological Law
26: Danielle Celermajer: Justice
27: Samid Suliman and Kaya Barry: International Mobility
Rhys Crilley , Lecturer in International Relations and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Glasgow
Nivi Manchanda , Reader in International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
Laura J. Shepherd , Professor of International Relations, University of Sydney
Cai Wilkinson , Associate Professor in International Relations, Deakin University
Caitlin Biddolph , Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Technology, Sydney
Stefanie Fishel , Senior Lecturer, University of Sunshine Coast
Rhys Crilley is a Lecturer in International Relations and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has published widely on the intersections of global politics, social media, and popular culture. His current research explores how the legitimacy of nuclear weapons is communicated and contested in the contemporary era. He tweets at @rhyscrilley. Nivi Manchanda is a Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She is interested in questions of racism, colonialism, and capitalism and how they shape the contemporary global order. She is currently working on a project on borders, settler colonialism, and global solidarity, with a particular concern for Palestinian liberation. Laura J. Shepherd is a Professor of International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research explores aspects of gender and governance. She still spends too much time on Twitter, which she refuses to call X, and where she mostly lurks but tweets occasionally from @drljshepherd. Cai Wilkinson is an Associate Professor in International Relations at Deakin University, Australia. Cai's research focuses on societal security in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on LGBTQ human rights and "traditional values" in Kyrgyzstan and Russia, as well as on interrogating the role of genders and sexualities in international politics. Cai is currently working on projects about the politics of LGBT rights and "traditional values", and queer knowledges. Caitlin Biddolph is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of International Studies and Education at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. She is currently researching the global governance of transitional justice through queer decolonial perspectives. More broadly, Caitlin is interested in queer, feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial approaches to global politics, particularly global governance, international law, and transitional justice. Stefanie Fishel is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunshine Coast in Southeast Queensland, Australia. She specializes in international relations, political theory, and environmental politics. Her interdisciplinary research engages with science and technology studies, philosophy, and the natural sciences, exploring how these fields inform our understanding of global political issues.
Instructor Resources to accompany Thinking World Politics Otherwise, 1e:
- PowerPoints
"At a time when inventing different ways of living and doing politics feels both urgent and difficult, the contributors to this volume give us the gift of imagination. They do not merely think world politics, but also feel and do. Here's to worlds otherwise!" - Roxani Krystalli, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews
"A rich, diverse and multi-faceted engagement with a range of essential concepts and approaches within contemporary IR theory. A useful contribution to advanced courses on world politics in general and IR Theory in particular." - Kevin Dunn, Professor of International Relations, Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges