DAVID BLANEY, Chair and Professor

Carnegie Hall
Rm 203 F

Phone: (651) 696-6020
Email: blaney@macalester.edu

>> Poli 120: Foundations of International Politics
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David joined the faculty in 1994.  He has degrees from Valparaiso University (B.A.) and the Graduate School of International Studies (now the Korbel School), University of Denver (M.A., Ph.D.).  His research interests include the social and political theory of international relations, theories of culture and identity, history of political economic thought, and contemporary international political economy.  His book (with Naeem Inayatullah), International Relations and the Problem of Difference (Routledge, 2004) explores the historical sources of the failure of international relations as a discipline to seriously confront the problem of difference and the critical ethical resources attention to difference potentially uncovers.  Naeem and David have just completed a manuscript, Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism, which explores the way the contrast of savage and civilized is crucial to the constitution of political economy during the Scottish Enlightenment and its resonances in Hegel and Marx.  Attention to the savage other that also lies within the political economy tradition opens spaces for alternative conceptions of time and space, providing a complex ethical legacy for re-imagining contemporary international political economy.  An initial installment of this project, “The Savage Smith and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism,” appeared in Beate Jahn, ed. Classical Theory and International Relations (Cambridge, 2004).  Other installments, “Undressing the Wound of Wealth: Political Economy as a Cultural Project” and “Shed no Tears: Wealth, Race, and Death in Hegel’s Necro-Philosophy,” will appear in Jacqueline Best and Mathew Patterson, eds., Cultural Political Economy (Routledge, 2009) and Ritu Vij, ed., Hegelian Encounters in IR  (Palgrave, forthcoming) respectively.   David teaches Foundations of International Politics, Development Politics, Work, Wealth, and Well-being, Global Political Economy, Advanced International Theory, and the Department’s Research Seminar.

For additional information, see a copy of David Blaney's vitae.