Dean Caivano is a Professor of Political Science and History at Merced College in California, USA. His work can be found in New Political Science, Journal of Narrative Politics, and Spectra. He is currently working on a book length project titled, A Politics of All: Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy.
Sarah Naumes is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Politics at York University in Canada. She is also a Research Development Officer with the University of California, Merced in the United States. She has published in and on narrative and autoethnography in Millennium and Journal of Narrative Politics. Her research explores the ways that pain and trauma are experienced and theorized by veterans of the Canadian and United States armed forces.

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
Chapter 1: Narrative and Autoethnography and its Emergence Within International Relations Scholarship 21
Chapter 2: Rethinking Political Theory: Storytelling, The Political, and Pedagogy 41
Chapter 3: A Genealogy of the Sublime 63
Chapter 4: The Sublime Aesthetic of Narrative & Autoethnography 93
Chapter 5: Vignettes of the Banal 127
Postscript I Revisiting Vignettes of the Banal 145
Bibliography 149