An Ontological Rethinking of Identity in International Studies

Yong-Soo Eun (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 87 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-30882-6 (ISBN)

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My aim in this book is to offer preliminary steps in developing a better field for identity research in the discipline of international relations (IR). That is, my typology maps not only the analytical, theoretical, and epistemological orientations of identity research, but also, and more importantly, its ontological underpinnings.

This book shows that identity studies in the discipline of International Relations (IR) generally cohere around two discrete understandings of being, substantialism and correlationism, and that their analytical, theoretical, and epistemological orientations are split along those lines. This binary opposition makes it difficult for identity scholarship to meet the internal validity standard of coherence while unnecessarily narrowing the theoretical lenses of constructivism in IR. The author argues that the best way to step outside that binary is to re-ground identity in ontology of immanence. The book shows that immanent ontological thinking enables us to have a pluralist epistemology and methodology for the study of identity, including both positivist and interpretivist orientations, without yielding a logically inconsistent alignment.

Yong-Soo Eun, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Hanyang University (HYU), Seoul, South Korea.

Chapter 1: Introduction: A thorny problem.- Chapter 2: A typology of identity research in IR.- Chapter 3: Re-grounding identity in ontology of immanence.- Chapter 4: Illustrations and implications.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in International Relations
Zusatzinfo	XI, 87 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	262 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	identity-as-entity • identity-as-flux • identity-as-machine • ontological re-grounding of identity • ontology of immanence • typology of identity
ISBN-10	3-031-30882-4 / 3031308824
ISBN-13	978-3-031-30882-6 / 9783031308826
Zustand	Neuware