Cai Wilkinson – författare

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 resourcesThinking 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

This book discusses the ongoing challenges of queer visibilities, activism, and knowledge production and demonstrates that there are lessons to be learned from the experiences of queer people in the Caucasus and Central Asia.The idea for this book emerged from a desire to showcase queer scholarship in and on the region, following a panel discussion about the visibility of queer communities in the post-Soviet space at the ASEEES virtual convention in December 2021. The contributions in this book explore questions, including but not limited to: Under what circumstances and conditions does the Internet play a polarizing or liberalizing role in relation to sexual and gender diversities? What accounts for the divergent trajectories of LGBTQ+ rights recognition in different states and regions of the world? How is expanding access to the Internet and persistent government censorship and queerphobia changing LGBTQ+ identities, visibilities, and activism?Via their engagements with the questions outlined above, this book amply demonstrates not just the relevance of scholarship about LGBTQ+ communities and activism for both area studies and queer studies but the ongoing need to interrogate existing political economies of knowledge production.The chapters in this book were originally published in Central Asian Survey and are accompanied by a new Foreword, an updated Introduction, an Epilogue, and an Afterword.