Undisciplining IR by Priyanka Chandra
This volume celebrates the groundbreaking contributions of Prof. A.K. Ramakrishnan, whose work has redefined International Relations through critical theory, postcolonial lenses, and transdisciplinary methods. By centering the "unarticulated body" and subaltern experience, this volume invites readers to undiscipline IR—one critical perspective at a time. Challenging hegemonic narratives, the book interrogates mainstream IR epistemologies—from Orientalist frameworks to neoliberal paradigms—while centering non-Western knowledge systems. Through themes like Political Islam, social movements, and intersectional identities, it bridges cultural studies, philosophy, and grassroots politics to reveal how West Asia’s contested realities reshape global discourse. The chapters dissect pressing issues: the Palestinian genocide, refugee experiences, artificial intelligence in conflict, and the suppression of dissent, while theorizing agency through poetry, memory, and spatiality. The volume argues for area studies as the core of IR, dismantling "great power politics" to prioritize marginalized voices and organic epistemologies of the Global South. Designed for scholars, policymakers, and activists, this book is essential for reimagining IR pedagogy and praxis. It serves as a key resource for students and faculty in Political Science, Postcolonial Studies, and Middle East scholarship, offering radical methodologies to decode democratization, religion, and resistance. Think tanks, journalists, and diplomats will find its critiques of policy formulation and Orientalist discourse invaluable, while civil society actors gain tools to link local struggles to global justice.‘This festschrift celebrates AK. Ramakrishnan’s enduring challenge to hegemonic knowledge in IR. Through critical engagements with postcolonial theory, Islamic cosmopolitanism, gender, artificial intelligence, and the Palestinian question, the contributors demonstrate how IR must be “undisciplined” to confront its own colonial inheritances. The volume offers scholars of South and West Asia a rigorous and politically conscious framework for reimagining the discipline.’
- JAMES ONLEY, Ahmed Seddiqi Chair in Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Sharjah, UAE
‘Subscribing to A.K.Ramakrshnan’s line of thinking, this volume stands for a refocusing of IR theory away from the traditional domains of nation-state, power, diplomacy, and security. Repositioning the discipline which in its popular imagination is profoundly grounded in Eurocentric, elitist and statist experiences, this work draws attention to the differently situated experiences of people and movements of global south, such as women, minorities, refugees, whose voices were previously unheard of or completely excluded from the mainstream IR. Touching a relatively unchartered terrain, this book contributes significantly to the reimagining of conventional IR.’
- M.H.ILIAS, Professor and former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
‘Deeply impressed by the excellence of the contents of the festschrift to honour the unique contributions made by Prof. Ramakrishnan to his discipline. His philosophical approach to the discipline is humanity- centred and not state-centred. For him the state is only an instrument devised by humans. As a professional diplomat, I recall with joy and gratitude my conversations with him. His work is a study in holistic reasoning and rare clarity.’
- Ambassador K.P. FABIAN, Professor, Symbiosis University, India
Priyanka Chandra is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA), O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonepat, India. She is co-director of the research series Critical Interventions in Arts and Cultural Studies, a transdisciplinary research programme that focuses on intersections of art, culture, and politics in the Global South. She is Senior Research Fellow at IDEAS, Office of Interdisciplinary Research, JGU. She obtained her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of Postcoloniality and Statehood: The Case of Egypt (Routledge, 2026).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781041201731 |
| ISBN 10 | 1041201737 |
| Title | Undisciplining IR |
| Author | Priyanka Chandra |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2026-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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