3rd UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture September 21, 2010

Is it Necessary to Love Your Neighbours?
Living with Radical Diversities and the Right to be Oneself

Both in academic circles and in the global middle class culture, international relations is a play of national interest, security, international trade and other such lofty, tangible forces with which the first pages of serious newspapers and university departments seem permanently concerned. Yet, even ordinary citizens seem aware that underlying these clearly identifiable, real-life forces there are less tangible subjectivities in the form of crosscutting perceptions, sentiments, images and fantasies that constitute the underside of international relations. This lecture deals with this underside; it emphasizes the web of subjectivities in which relationship among countries, communities and what some would call nations take shape.

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