Uses of Iver Neumann

<p>This book engages with the work of Iver B. Neumann demonstrating the past present and future importance of his work as a central IR scholar who set a path for younger researchers to make sense of international relations beyond traditional bounds.</p><p>By closely examining his work some of the leading contemporary political scientists reflect on the eclecticism that embodies Neumann’s theorisation. Expert contributors engage in a critical review of his work on identity practice theory discourse knowledge production mentoring and methodology looking beyond the person to say something about the state of the field and the craft of research altogether. These reflections engage in critical assessment of the state of International Relations as a discipline taking stock of theoretical and methodological challenges that scholars face and reviewing the changes and continuities in knowledge production within social sciences.</p><p>This book would be of interest to students researchers and educators working on themes of diplomacy anthropology popular culture identity foreign policy and knowledge production and introducing them to the state of the discipline key texts and key developments over the past 30 years.</p>