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Agentic Misrecognition offers a critical examination of how misrecognition shapes power, agency and conflict in world politics.
Conceptualizing misrecognition as a graded spectrum of visibility and value across world order, the volume examines how actors systematically diminish the agency of others while simultaneously amplifying the legitimacy and authority of their own positions. While international relations scholarship has long explored inclusion, exclusion and insider-outsider dynamics, this book highlights the often-neglected question of who is recognised, or indeed denied recognition, as a meaningful subject in global affairs.
Drawing on diverse theoretical, geographical and disciplinary perspectives, the book seeks to deepen our understanding of the political stakes of recognition and illuminate how misrecognition can drive inequalities, fuel conflict and limit rationality in international politics.
Shannon Brincat is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Thomas Lindemann is Professor of International Relations at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
Introduction: Agentic Misrecognition in World Politics – Shannon Brincat and Thomas Lindemann
Ideology As Misrecognition – Titus Stahl
Overcoming Misrecognition: The Subtle Ways of Benevolence in International Relations – Frédéric Ramel
Illusions of Independence: Frustrated Agency and the Politics of Great Power (Mis)recognition – Michelle Murray
‘Speaking Proper French’: Citizen Bids for State Recognition in Chad and Cöte d’Ivoire – Moudwe Daga and Julia Gallagher
Gender, Power and International (Mis)recognition: Russia’s Quest for Epistemic Agency Through the ‘Civilisational’ Crusade Against the Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities – Tanya Narozhna
‘Hunger for Certainty’: Misrecognition, Masculinity and Agentic Action in India’s and Russia’s Desires for Neocolonial Subjecthood – Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson
Agentic Misrecognition in the Global Monetary System – John D. Feldmann
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Recognition and Agency: People and States – Richard Ned Lebow
Agency and Its Recognition in International Relations – Heikki Ikdheimo
Important, Not Impotent: Russia and the Exercise of Agency Through the War In
Ukraine – Regina Heller
Hyper-Agency as the New Norm of Social Recognition: Notes on the Neoliberal Regime of Recognition – Haud Guéguen