Power of Words in International Relations Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse

Name: Power of Words in International Relations Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse
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ISBN: 9780262550697

ISBN-10: 0262550695

ISBN-13: 9780262550697

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charlotte Epstein

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In the second half of the twentieth century, worldwide attitudes toward whaling shifted from widespread acceptance to moral censure. Why? Whaling, once as important to the global economy as oil is now, had long been uneconomical. Major species were long known to be endangered. Yet nations had continued to support whaling. In The Power of Words in International Relations,Charlotte Epstein argues that the change was brought about not by changing material interests but by a powerful anti-whaling discourse that successfully recast whales as extraordinary and intelligent endangered mammals that needed to be saved. Epstein views whaling both as an object of analysis in its own right and as a lens…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Charlotte Epstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.



Preface


Acronyms and Abbreviations



Making Meaning Matter in International Relations



The Whaling Order



An International Political Economy of Modern Whaling



Whaling, Sovereignty, Governmentality



The Society of Whaling States



Producing the Anti-Whaling Order



The Making of a Dominant Global Discourse



The Power of Science?



The Anti-Whaling Campaign



Reproducing the Anti-Whaling Order



Crafting the Anti-Whaler (I): An Applied Discourse Analysis



Crafting the Anti-Whaler (II): Consumptive Practices



State Positionings (I): The Anti-Whaling Discourse



State Positionings (II): The Pro-Whaling Discourse



Conclusion: The Study of Identity in International Relations


Appendix: Whales and Whaling-A Table of Events


Notes


Bibliography


List of Interviews


Index