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Of Selves and Others

Bartelson, Jens LU (2024) p.12-22
Abstract

This chapter revisits Iver Neumann’s seminal book The Uses of the Other (1999) in order to unpack its assumptions about collective identity formation in world politics. After having situated this work in its contemporary context and pointed to its significance, the chapter tries to demonstrate the extent to which its basic assumptions about collective identity formation replicates those that went into the very making of such collective identities in the modern international system. The chapter uses this unpacking as a foil to historicize these assumptions and to sketch a brief account of how a modern world divided into selves and others came into being and hence became possible to conceptualize in such self-referential terms.

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Uses of Iver Neumann : Nothing International is Alien - Nothing International is Alien
pages
11 pages
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Routledge
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  • scopus:85209847958
ISBN
9781032708201
9781040256190
DOI
10.4324/9781032708225-2
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English
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Publisher Copyright: © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Halvard Leira, Alireza Shams Lahijani and Einar Wigen; individual chapters, the contributors.
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