Ripping, Cutting, Stitching

shine choi is senior lecturer at the school of people, environment and planning at Massey University. Saara Särmä is postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University. She is the co-founder of the Feminist Think Tank Hattu. Cristina Masters is senior lecturer in international politics at theUniversity of Manchester. Marysia Zalewski is professor of international relations atCardiff University. Her research has been supported by the British Academy, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and The British Council. In recognition of her international research profile, her major impact on the development of critical IR, and her mentorship of junior scholars, she was presented with an Eminent Scholar Award in 2013 by the International Studies Association. Michelle Lee Brown is assistant professor of Indigenous Knowledge, Data Sovereignty, and Decolonization at Washington State University.Swati Parashar is professor in Peace and Development at the University of Gothenburg.

Given our everyday of global crises, anxious observers ask how thinking, writing and especially feeling might/could/should be other than what today’s disciplinary IR offers. By shifting our attention, this extraordinary book exposes what disciplining practices in academia make ‘small’ (invisible, unemotional, insignificant), connects the everyday of what is made small to the violent continuities of global politics, and offers a daring, disruptive and richly rewarding exploration of what is vastly at stake in (not) thinking IR otherwise. This uniquely collaborative project concludes by inviting us to imagine other futures and identifying strategies for doing so.

• Part I1: how to read this book that is not a book2: frankenstinian encounters: feeling the ways3: on writing4: collective writing/writing collectively 5: playground relations 6: calling out (via) disjunctures7: what is at stake?A pause, a breather: I was distracted … PART II8: black cats, the seduction of usefulness and cracks 9: perverse love letter10: writing exhaustion – the unbearable weight of white feminism 11: composting anger: why I/we refuse your 'diversity' and the 'womanofcolour' tag 12: planet white boys13: on exhaustion and enchantment14: can feminism be a comma?15: exhausted (again) of the normal16: academic friendships and angers (not?) worth holding onto 17: on writing and this bookPART III18: a shaking…19: feminist practices of knowledge formation…20: trajectories….? 21: imagining other futures… 22: dreaming of other futures… 23: Poetics of a handbook – or some suggestions for better practices… (for those still in academia…)24: be(co