Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations

Brent J. Steele is Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA. Harry D. Gould is Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University, USA. Oliver Kessler is Associate Professor at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Introduction Part I: Interpreting Constructivism 1. Third Generation Constructivism: Between Tactics and Strategy 2. A Tactical Guide to Conceptual Analysis 3. Social Constructivism and Actor-Network Theory: Bridging the Divide 4. Tactics of a Constructivist Pedagogy Part II: Discourse, Interpretation and Methods 5. Narrative Analysis as a Tactical Bridge 6. Identities as Tactics: Exposing Relational Foreign Policy as Story 7. Constructivism, Computational Social-Relational Methods, and Multiple Correspondence Analysis Part III: Constructivism and the Interpretive Methods of the Self 8. When Home is Part of the Field: Experiencing Uncanniness of Home in Field Conversations 9. A Reflexivity that Works for Us: Ethics Beyond Norms 10. Feminist Curiosity as Method: On (Limits to) Tactical Uses of Constructivism 11. Researching within the Instability of Meaning: Decolonial Voices and Practices 12. Constructing a Scholar on the Road Less Travelled 13. Tactics All The Way Down: The Politics of Exteriority in Constructivism Part IV: Construction and the Interpretation of History and Texts 14. How To Do (Differing) Things With Words: World-Making and (or) Meaning-Making 15. Stubbornly Stumbling into Making History: Constructivism and Historical International Relations