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Printed in Great Britain by Bell and Bain Ltd, Glasgow Contents Contributors vii Acknowledgements x 1 Recognition and the International: Meanings, Limits, Manifestations Patrick Hayden and Kate Schick 1 Part 1 Meanings: Critical Interventions 23 2 Unsettling Pedagogy: Recognition, Vulnerability and the International Kate Schick 25 3 Ambiguity, Existence, Cosmopolitanism: Simone de Beauvoir and a Global Theory of Feminist Recognition Monica Mookherjee 45 4 Recognition, Multiculturalism and the Allure of Separatism Volker M. Heins 69 5 Recognition and Accumulation Tarik Kochi 85 Part 2 Limits: Recognition’s Blind Spots 99 6 Lost Worlds: Evil, Genocide and the Limits of Recognition Patrick Hayden 101 7 In Recognition of the Abyssinian General Robbie Shilliam 121 8 The Recognition of Nature in International Relations Emilian Kavalski and Magdalena Zolkos 139 Part 3 Manifestations: International Orders and Disorders 157 9 Paternalistic Care and Transformative Recognition in International Politics Fiona Robinson 159 vi Contents 10 Recognition in the Struggle against Global Injustice Greta Fowler Snyder 175 11 Recognition in and of World Society Matthew S. Weinert 195 Bibliography 217 Index 243 Contributors Patrick Hayden is Professor of Political Theory and International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on the implications of the work of critical theorists and existentialists for issues in international and global politics. His books include Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts (Routledge, 2014), Political Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory (Routledge, 2009), Critical Theories of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, with Chamsy el-Ojeili), Cosmopolitan Global Politics (Ashgate, 2005) and Camus and the Challenge of Political Thought: Between Despair and Hope (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). Volker M. Heins is Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany, as well as a member of the social science faculty of the University of Bochum. He is also Faculty Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His areas of teaching and research are moral struggles in world society, multiculturalism and human rights, the politics of collective memory, and the Frankfurt School and its aftermath. His recent publications include Beyond Friend and Foe: The Politics of Critical Theory (Brill, 2011), Der Skandal der Vielfalt. Geschichte und Konzepte des Multikulturalismus (Campus, 2013) and Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation (Routledge, forthcoming; co-edited with Kai Koddenbrock and Christine Unrau). Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, and the Editor for Ashgate’s ‘Rethinking Asia and International Relations’ series. He is the author of three books, including Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the EU, China, and India (Bloomsbury, 2012), and the editor of several volumes, most recently World Politics at the Edge of Chaos: Reflections on Complexity and Global Life (State University of New York Press, 2015). His current research explores the encounter of International Relations with life in the Anthropocene, especially the engagement with nonhuman agency; and the nascent Asian normative orders and the ways in which they confront, complement and transform established traditions, norms and institutions. viii Contributors Emilian contends that in both these areas the application of Complexity Thinking has important implications for the way global life is approached, explained and understood. Tarik Kochi is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His research focuses on questions related to conflict and security, violence, war and international law, as well as the relationship between law, political economy and capitalism more generally. He is the author of The Other’s War: Recognition and the Violence of Ethics (Routledge, 2009). Monica Mookherjee is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University. Her major research interests lie in issues of multiculturalism, feminism, toleration, human rights and the politics of recognition, reparation and reconciliation. Her major contribution, Women’s Rights as Multicultural Claims: Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), explores the tensions between feminism and multiculturalism in contemporary political theory. Monica is also the editor of the volume Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation (Springer, 2010), and the author of a number of articles for journals such as Res Publica, Journal of International Political Theory, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and Feminist Theory. Her current projects include a monograph on a human capabilities-based approach to multiculturalism and a historical study of cosmopolitan feminist approaches to the politics of recognition. Fiona Robinson is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where she specializes in International Relations and Political Theory. From 1994 to 1998 she was Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security (Temple University Press, 2011) and Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory and International Relations (Westview Press, 1999), and co-editor, with Rianne Mahon, of Feminist Ethics and Social Politics: Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care (University of British Columbia Press, 2011). In 2014, she was awarded the J. Ann Tickner Book Prize from the University of Southern California for The Ethics of Care. Kate Schick is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and was formerly an Economic and Social Research Council Contributors ix Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Her books include Gillian Rose: A Good Enough Justice (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and The Vulnerable Subject: Beyond Rationalism in International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, with Amanda Russell Beattie). Robbie Shilliam is Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Black Pacific: Anticolonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015) and co-editor of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Color Line (Routledge, 2014). Greta Fowler Snyder is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research spans the fields of social movement and normative theory and she is interested in the topics of identity, inequality and culture. She has published in The Journal of Politics, Polity and Souls, has work forthcoming in Du Bois Review and is currently completing a book manuscript which highlights the significance of contemporary black identity politics in the USA for recognition theory. Matthew S. Weinert is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science & International Relations at the University of Delaware. He works in English School theory and normative international political theory. More specifically, his research focuses on the development of architectures of (global) governance that emerge at the intersection of state interests and human well- being. He is the author, most recently, of Making Human: World Order and the Global Governance of Human Dignity (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and is currently working on issues related to the protection of the cultural heritage of humankind. Magdalena Zolkos is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Social Justice, at the Australian Catholic University. She is a political theorist working in the area of memory politics, collective trauma, affect theory and feminism. She is the author of Reconciling Community and Subjective Life: Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing