Lived International

A Life in International Relations

AvStephen Chan, OBE

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Creative Interventions in Global Politics

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The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan’s personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from a lifetime of travel and engagement, and from both published and hitherto unpublished poetry, forming a parallel list to the author’s academic works, the book seeks to inject into debate the sense that language, spoken and written discourse alone, are not a sufficient claim to ‘bearing witness’, and that even activism from afar can often fail to understand a human condition that afflicts the majority of the world’s population. Chan demonstrates that a life of praxis, living international relations, yields more insights than a life of theory alone.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-25
Mått:152 x 219 x 11 mm
Vikt:222 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Creative Interventions in Global Politics
Antal sidor:140
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538164990

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Stephen Chan was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth in 2010 – ‘For services to Africa and Higher Education’ – the same year he was awarded the International Studies Association accolade, Eminent Scholar in Global Development. Earlier a newspaper editor and literary publisher, and an international civil servant stationed in Africa, he has held responsible positions – including Deanships – at three British universities; held the George Soros Chair at the Central European University, and the Konrad Adenauer Chair at the elite Palestinian Bir Zeit University, among a string of other named and honorific appointments. He is Professor of World Politics at SOAS University of London, remains seconded to diplomatic engagements in Africa and the Middle East and heads the philanthropic Kwok Meil Wah Foundation. He has published 36 earlier scholarly books, five volumes of poetry, and three novels.

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Oscillating between memoir, travelogue and poems, Stephen Chan offers a fascinating glimpse of a life well lived: as an activist, as a diplomat, as a scholar-teacher and as a policy adviser. He takes us from New Zealand to Sub-Saharan Africa and from the Middle East to East Asia, providing astute insights into key political challenges that define our time.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Receiving the International2. Facing the International3. Facing the Local4. Facing the Contradictions5. Facing the Tragedies6. Facing Down History7. Facing the Tragedy of Our Days8. The Academy and the International