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Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529222630Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Snapshots from Home
Taking a broadly interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a unique angle on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for global theory and practice.
The book bridges two important debates regarding the relevance of quantum theory to the social sciences, and the pressing need for a more global international relations (IR). It brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions – Daoism, Buddhism and Hinduism – to an investigation of mind, action and strategy in conditions of radical uncertainty.
Engaging with both theory and real-world problems, including climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and racial inequality, this book explores what it might mean to successfully navigate the potentials of a post-pandemic world.
“Two red alerts for all Newtonians! Fierke's snapshots of Buddhism, Daoism and Hinduism and of quantum physics are exhilaratingly imaginative in rethinking the relation between science and culture, truth and faith.” Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University
"Navigating those relations that constitute both who we are and are not, each differently, Fierke de-ontologizes a global international relations that can only survive on the impossibilities of becoming global." Shih Chih-yu, National Taiwan University
K.M. Fierke is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
Introductions:
Repositioning the Apparatus
Getting to Know the Apparatus
SECTION I: Impermanence
1. Self/No-Self
2. Mind/ No-Mind
SECTION II: Complementarity and Yinyang
3. Action/No Action
4. War/No War
SECTION III: Entanglement and Karma
5. Navigating a Participatory Universe
6. What Goes Around Comes Around
Endings/Beginnings:
At Home in the Universe
