Tears of Theory - International Relations As Storytelling

Demonstrating how storytelling and experience can be integral parts of International Relations scholarship, this book is about failure, hurt, and survival. Focused on the author's research journey on a mysterious Cold War-era spy, Park-Kang reflects on how to transform wounds and challenges into academically meaningful work.

List of contents

Prologue
Part 1
Confession
Combinations
Part 2
Enigma
Encounters
Entanglement
Part 3
Destiny
Detectives
Bibliography

About the author

Sungju Park-Kang is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Park-Kang was Assistant Professor of International Relations and Korean Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands and the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His work has appeared in Review of International Studies and Millennium: Journal of International Studies, among others. Park-Kang is the author of Fictional International Relations: Gender, Pain and Truth (Routledge).

Summary

Demonstrating how storytelling and experience can be integral parts of International Relations scholarship, this book is about failure, hurt, and survival. Focused on the author’s research journey on a mysterious Cold War-era spy, Park-Kang reflects on how to transform wounds and challenges into academically meaningful work.

Product details

• Authors: Sungju Park-Kang, Park-Kang Sungju
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781538165058
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6505-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Creative Interventions in Global Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Espionage & secret services, Espionage and secret services