Forgetting Ourselves
Subtitle: Secession and the (Im)possibility of Territorial Identity (Innovations in the Study of World Politics)
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: March 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780739106662
Subjects: International relations; Miscellaneous Items; Sovereignty; Secession; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Sociology; Territory, National; General; Non-Classifiable; International Relations - General; National state; Self-determination, National
Description: "In Forgetting Ourselves, Linda S. Bishai thoroughly examines why secession has been ignored by the field of International Relations both in theory and in practice. Mainstream perspectives in IR theory have, up to this point, questioned neither state formation nor inside/outside divide of state sovereignty.

Bishai, however, historicizes and questions to concept of secession itself, as well as the component assumptions of territoriality and identity upon which it rests. She argues that understanding the historic contingency of secessionist conflict allows us to contemplate an alternative vision of international relations in which the violence associated with controlling territory is no longer necessary for validating political identities."--Jacket.