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Focus on dichotomous identities that value on over the other

It is concerned in particular with how identities of women/men, western/eastern, civilised/uncivilised, developed/underdeveloped, domestic/foreign, rational/irrational have been constituted over time and place; what is normalised & excluded & made exceptional and pathological in these identities.

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Focus on dichotomous identities that value on over the other
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Construction of self/other also operates internally
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Foreign policies constitute the identity of the self
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Foreign policy actions = in part about reproducing who we think we are
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No 'fundamental essences' to actors, entities assumed as given
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Understanding the world depends on exclusion of identities/histories
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Violence: via material & Ideational construction of boundaries
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