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

This volume harnesses the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics. It comprises a prologue, an epilogue, and sixteen chapters that both build upon and diversify the success of the 2011 volume Autobiographical International Relations.
Here, as in that volume, academics place their narratives in the context of world politics, culture, and history. Contributors explore moments in their academic lives that are often inexpressible in the standard academic voice and which, in turn, require a different way of writing and knowing. They write in the belief that academic IR has already begun to benefit from a different kind of writing-a stylae that retrieves the "I" and explicitly demonstrates its presence both within the world and within academic writing. By working within the overlap between theory, history, and autobiography, these chapters aim to increase the clarity, urgency, and meaningfulness of academic work.
Highlighting the autoethnographic and autobiographic turn in critical international relations, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars in international relations, IR theory and global politics.