Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Series editor introduction

Acknowledgments

Introduction

BRENT J. STEELE, HARRY D. GOULD AND OLIVER KESSLER

PART I

Interpreting Constructivism

1    Third generation Constructivism: between tactics and strategy

PIKI ISH-SHALOM

2    A tactical guide to conceptual analysis

HANNES PELTONEN

3    Social Constructivism and actor-network theory: bridging the divide

ALEXANDER D. BARDER

4    Tactics of a constructivist pedagogy

JAMIE FRUEH AND JEREMY YOUDE

PART II

Discourse, Interpretation and Method

5    Narrative analysis as a tactical bridge

JELENA SUBOTIC

6    Identities as tactics: exposing relational foreign policy as story

AMYSKONIECZNY

7    Constructivism, computational social-relational methods, and multiple correspondence analysis

DAVID M. MCCOURT

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

XYMENA KUROWSKA

9    A reflexivity that works for us: ethics beyond norms

JACK L. AMOUREUX

10    Feminist curiosity as method: on (limits to) tactical uses of Constructivism

ANNE-MARIE D’AOUST

11    Researching within the instability of meaning: decolonial voices and practices

MARCOS S. SCAUSO

12    Constructing a scholar on the road less traveled

M. L. DERAISMES COMBES

13    Tactics all the way down: the politics of exteriority in Constructivism

BRENT J. STEELE

PART IV

Construction and the Interpretation of History and Texts

14    How to do (differing) things with words: world-making and (or) meaning-making

HARRY D. GOULD

15    Stubbornly stumbling into making history: Constructivism and historical international relations

HALVARD LEIRA AND BENJAMIN DE CARVALHO

Conclusions

Index