This volume explores the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics.

Naeem Inayatullah is Professor at Ithaca College, USA.

Elizabeth Dauphinee is Professor at York University, Canada.

1. Permitted Urgency: a prologue, Naeem Inayatullah and Elizabeth Dauphinee 2. The Reluctant Immigrant: applicant to Modernity from afar Randolph B. Persaud 3. Dissolutions of the Self Véronique Pin-Fat 4. Simultaneous Translation: finding my core in the periphery Manuela L. Picq 5. The Intimate Architecture of Academic Stories: the politics of Political Science Paulo Ravecca 6. The Banality of Survival Aida A. Hozi? 7. Letters to Yvonne: words and/as worlds Sam Okoth Opondo 8. Your East Africa, My Pacific Northwest: a commercial view of Tanzania from an unfamiliar vantage Donnell Alexander 9. Loss of a Loss: Ground Zero, Spring 2014 Jenny Edkins 10. Contradictions, Nicholas Onuf 11. 'Was will das Weib?': from scholar-activism to film-making Ruth Halaj Reitan 12. What Might Still Sputter Forth Kevin C. Dunn 13. AUTO/BIO/GRAPH Paul Kirby 14. The Smell of Wood: Recuperating loss in a country of forgetting Charmaine Chua 15. Immobility, Intimacy, Movement: translating death, life, and border-crossings Richa Nagar 16. Suicide, the Only Political Act Worthy of the Name Dan Öberg 17. Dancing Modernity: an epilogue Cory Brown